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Christmas Battle
Dec 11, 2007 | 12:30 PM PST
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Faith
There is a poem that keeps getting sent around the internet that most of you have probably seen. Somebody even posted it on their blog here on myfox. The poem tries to politicize Christmas and make it out to be battle between those on the right and those on the left. I received it in my email for the 15th time in 3 days and this is my response. Enjoy! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody!
Twas the month of December
and all through the land
our email was brimming,
with the boring and bland.
Not a reader was laughing,
nor feeling impressed
by the also-ran letters the senders redressed.
But the letters, the warnings, the paranoid rants
filled the boxes of all like a pair of tight pants.
They were fearful that humans could somehow destroy
the power of God and Jesus his boy,
but the flocks that were chirping, aflutter with fright
that some mortals could weaken God’s truth and his might
were mistaken quite deeply, for they failed to see
all the girls and the boys; their eyes lit up with glee.
For you see Christmas couldn’t be taken away
despite what some sycophants told us each day.
Some Christians forget what Jesus commanded;
To be joyful when, for Jesus you’re branded
a fool among fools, a crazy, a freak,
a lover of kindness, a church-going geek!
Christmas wasn’t meant for political gain
not for polls, nor for pundits with self-righteous pain,
not for parties, nor groups, not for left or for right;
Christmas was never intended for fights!
Salvation and grace cannot be dissipated
but the fools who attack have thus desecrated
the meaning of Christmas, the love, the rebirth,
the joyous celebration that transcends the earth.
In the home of the brave and the land of the free
with those we might fear or perhaps not agree,
we should all come together with the love we conceive
for the blessing of Christmas on a cold winter’s eve;
Merry Christmas to all, and may all be relieved!
Daniel
