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Merry Christmas!

Classik said:
Christmas comes with a lot of things: happiness, luxury and extravagant spending, deathts, teenage pregnancies, this and that.

Then by nexy year: reckon reckon reckon! Crying crying crying!! Broke broke broke!!! Abortion abortion abortion!!!! Premature moms premature moms premature moms.

Lets be careful. Just a few are wise on what to do.

I love Christmas gastronomic activities! Great moms've got great kitchens :wink :hysterical
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My Christmas is very,very simple compared to what it used to be.No more tree because the small artifical tree my son and I used to have the lights burned out so we decided not to get another one.I don't buy presents.I don't send cards.It is just Jesus Birth that I celebrate.
 
Classik said:
Christmas comes with a lot of things: happiness, luxury and extravagant spending, deathts, teenage pregnancies, this and that.

Then by nexy year: reckon reckon reckon! Crying crying crying!! Broke broke broke!!! Abortion abortion abortion!!!! Premature moms premature moms premature moms.

Lets be careful. Just a few are wise on what to do.

I love Christmas gastronomic activities! Great moms've got great kitchens :wink :hysterical
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Sounds like an off the wall statement to me.
Very few of the things, if any, you have named have anything to do with that time of year. They are the character of people all year around.
 
Kathi said:
My Christmas is very,very simple compared to what it used to be.No more tree because the small artifical tree my son and I used to have the lights burned out so we decided not to get another one.I don't buy presents.I don't send cards.It is just Jesus Birth that I celebrate.
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We've always taught presents were about giving and sharing a special time together. I taught the kids that the original idea was that the wise men brought gifts to Jesus' parents for them and Jesus, like we do for a baby shower to celebrate a new child.
Of coarse His birth was like no other child's birth. I think if our hearts our in the heart place the Lord is pleased.

I believe that graciously giving and receiving is an important part of having the heart and mind of Christ.
 
Deborah13 said:
She'll probably play with it for several yrs. Lexy had one when she was little and now my g-daughter has it. She and her brother play with it. Fisher Price toys used to hold up forever.
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I know that monica got a used doll house for free from the thrift store near her job.
 
Gary said:
You're absolutely right!!! :thumbsup Too bad most people don't get that.

Christmas in my eyes is not a Christian holiday. There's no edification in purposely killing one of God's creations (tree) and dragging it into the house and throwing sprinkles on it. I personally make no connection between God and Christmas. It was never about God when I was a kid, we just wanted presents.

Christmas is a secular holiday and the only thing that ties it to religion are the idols. I suppose one could call it evil because of that, but then we miss out on the joy of making others happy and teaching our children the value of giving.

To me it's just another day.........w/presents. :sohappy





If that's what you're doing, your celebrating Christmas for all the wrong reasons.
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I have gotten more out of channukah then Christmas. no gelt have I given. however, MOST americans, live pay check to pay check. the fact is that most do go into debt because they were either taught that is weird not to give gifts on Christmas or are wanting to be a better parent and give to their kids. I say if one Is to give then give IF the lord has blessed you to do so.
 
jasonc said:
I have gotten more out of channukah then Christmas. no gelt have I given. however, MOST americans, live pay check to pay check. the fact is that most do go into debt because they were either taught that is weird not to give gifts on Christmas or are wanting to be a better parent and give to their kids. I say if one Is to give then give IF the lord has blessed you to do so.
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It's all about motive, not abundance.


Luke 21
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.


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Gary said:
It's all about motive, not abundance.


Luke 21
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.


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. food for thought what does the bible say about the lender and whom is his master? im not saying that giving small gifts is bad ,just addressing that I know that many give gifts that DONT have the money.that isn't good.
 
lol. ya sinner. thou art a pagan. what do we do with pagans? burn them upon the stake.
 
I never went into debt for Christmas for the kids. There were a couple lean years but we just explained to them that we didn't have a lot of money but that we would get them such and such (usually a gun, lol) when we could. Then we did when we were able. I bought them stuff all year long and we didn't make Christmas a have to time of the year.

One year (when they were real little) we got 'em good. We wrapped up a couple real small things and put them under the tree, and hid the rest in the laundry room. After they opened their presents we sent one of them into the laundry room to get something and they freaked, lol. That was a good year and we had a big pile of presents in there for them.
 
We used to celebrate Christian with tons of gifts.Then I got divorced and finances were tough.I told my kids who were older by then that I could not afford gifts.My kids went through some financially rough times too and they could not afford Christmas gifts either so it was a mutual thing.
 
Obadiah said:
Gee, not after reading where this thread went. Some of the recent comments here make me think I'd rather set myself on fire than celebrate Jesus' birth!
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That's why I keep the two separate. It leaves no room for confusion.
 
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