December 6, 2005

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  I receive a pass-along email every year. I have written a similar letter in the way I felt one should be written.   His Birthday  Invitation My Way    The best of birthday parties is nearing.  The excitement of people shopping for gifts is in the air and His birth date is being announced by all media, worldwide.   This birthday and its remembrance began years ago. People understood then and were  thankful for, His greatest gift to them but now, when family and friends get together for this party, so many don’t know “the why” for the celebration.   Every year there are feasts, decorations and gift giving. Amazingly, this birthday celebration begun in Christ’s name and given Christ’s name “Christmas” is no longer recognized by the givers of the parties, as a party for Him.  He was in years past the guest of honor but He is now forgotten so much of the time that His invitation isn’t sent.  When the day arrives, the door is often closed with no admittance for Him.   Not invited? He sees all.  He sees people eating, drinking and joking.   He sees Santa’s dressed in red and children rushing with squeals of ”Santa Claus”!   He sees gifts shared and opened with great expectation. He sees friends greet and hug and He waits with arms extended to all but He knows His hugs may not come.  Every year things deteriorate.  People party and give gifts but fewer are remembering Him.  His story is slowly becoming forgotten and pushed from our minds by retailers hell-bent on selling and by non believers who prefer we would lose our faith treating the “Greatest Story Ever Told” as a myth.    Christmas!  I would like the Christmas celebration restored as it should be.  Won’t you allow Him to enter your Christmas celebration as well as your life?   He came to this world almost two thousand years ago, gave His life for yours, on a pain filled cross. Today, what He wants is a renewed belief in Him.    Is His story (Click Here) so impossible to believe?  The Biblical Story of his birth, unlike what so much of history has reduced it to, is filled with the greatest of gifts; love, forgiveness of sin and everlasting life.  Is that perspective less exciting than other stories of super heroes fighting the good fight?  He is, after all, ”a super hero” more-so than those we are made aware of in movies we view.  No, He is not a Batman but, He is “Salvation”.    He, is today, trying to make His own party arrangements and everyday He is extending an open invitation to each of us.  Our names are on His list of expected guests.  My hope is we will all consider His invitation and attend.  Attend with me not just on Christmas day but during the whole season of Christmas and throughout the coming years, His celebration.  Answer Him by extending His invitation to others.  He continues His wait for each of us.   He loves us all.  He wants this world to come to the re-realization of Him knowing it can be a much better place if we utilize the Creators few and simple best teachings.  If you can’t believe in Him, believe in the ancient teachings.  Anyone with common sense can read and see the brilliance in the words.      Click on to read or study The Ten Commandments Click on to read or study The Golden Rule Click on to read or study The Beatitudes   Merry Christmas  from LittleE and The Risen Christ, Jesus

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