Hello Dear Friend!
Well, as you know, it's time for my birthday
again. Last year, they had a real big party
for me and it seem like they will again this
year. After all, they've been shopping and
preparing for it for months now, and there
have been advertisements almost every day
about how soon it's coming! They really do
go overboard about it, but it's nice to know
that at least on one day of the year some
people are thinking about me a little.
You know, its been many years now since
they first started celebrating my birthday.
Back then they seemed to realize and
appreciate how much fun it is for the little
children. Just the same, it seems that most
folks are missing the point of it all.
Like last year, for example:
When my birthday came around, they threw
a big party, but can you believe it? . . .
I wasn't even invited! Imagine! The guest
of honor, and they forgot all about me!
Here they had begun preparing for the
festivities two months in advance, but when
the big day came, I was left out in the cold!
Well, it has happened so many times in
recent years, I wasn't even surprised.
Even though I wasn't even invited, I thought
I'd just quietly slip in anyway. So I came in
and stood off to the side.
Everyone was drinking, laughing and having
a grand time, when all of a sudden, in came
this fat fellow in a bright red suit, wearing a
phony white beard and shouting, Ho ho ho!
He looked like he had more than enough to
drink, but he somehow managed to weave his
way running around the floor while everyone
cheered. When he collapsed into a big arm -
chair, all the little children went running over to him excitedly yelling, Santa! Santa!
I mean, you'd have thought he was the guest of honor and the whole holiday was in his
honor!
Then he began telling them the most ridiculous stories you've ever heard! . . .
that he lives at the North Pole with a crew
of dwarfs and that every year on my birthday he rides in his sleigh pulled by a bunch of
flying reindeers, delivering presents to
children all over the world! I mean there
wasn't a word of truth in anything he said!
Imagine telling such poor, little, impres-
sivable kids such far-fetched fables!
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Finally I just had to leave, I walked out of
the door, and it was hardly surprising that no
one even noticed that I had gone.
As I walked down the street afterward, I felt
about as lonely and forlorn as a stray dog!
I could hardly remember the last time I'd felt
that low.
Maybe you don't think I cry . . . . .
That little manger scene you had put up in the corner of your living room was really
touching!
It's sweet of people to commemorate my
birthday like that. But did you know that
nowadays, in some countries, the authorities
won't even allow manger scenes to be placed
in the parks,streets, or public places anymore
. . . . .Not to mention the schools! And I'm not
talking about Communist countries!
I'm talking about the good, ol' USA, Imagine!
What could be more innocent than a manger
scene to remind people of my birthday? . . . .
and yet they ban it! They've actually passed
laws against it and make it illegal!
What's this world coming to? Another thing
that amazes me is how, on my birthday,
instead of giving me presents, most people
give gifts to each other! And to top it all off,
it's usually all kinds of stuff they don't even
need! Let me ask you, wouldn't you find it odd if when your birthday came along, all
your friends decided to celebrate it by giving
each other presents and never gave you a thing?
Someone once told me, . . . Well, it's because
you're not around like other people are, so
how can we give you a present?
You know my answer to that one: Then give
gifts of food and clothing to the poor, help
those who need it. Go visit the lonely!
I said, Listen, any gift you give to your needy
fellow men, I'll count as if you gave it to me
personally! ( See Matthew 25:34-40 )
Well sad to say, things are getting worse each year. You can just imagine my shock
a few years ago when I began seeing them
taking my name out of my birthday greeting
and replacing it with an X.
WHAT A INSULT! Think of it! . . Xmas! . . .
What if I wrote a birthday card and said
Happy Birthday X! You'd probably never
talk to me again! And that's just how I feel,
I mean what more could they do to push me right out of the picture on my birthday?
It reminds me of what happened recently to
a friend of mine, a sweet elderly fellow.
He's from the poorer side of town and he's
been trying unsuccessfully for years to join
the church. But it was a very exclusive church for the proper kind of folks, and they
just did not think he was good enough to be a
member. I found him one day sitting by the
church steps with his head in his hands
bowed and I asked him what was wrong,
he told me about it. I put my arm around his
shoulder and told him I knew just how he felt. I've been wanting to enter that same
church for twenty years and they've never
let me in either!
Well there's an end even to my patience.
So I'm going to let you in on a secret.
Now this is something I've been planning on
doing for quite sometime, but the way things
are going, I think I'm planning on holding my own party! How about that? It's going to be
the biggest most fantastic feast you could
possibly imagine! It might not happen this
year. But I'm sending out the invitations now
anyway because I know you'll want to come.
There's going to be room for billions, for everyone who wants to come! Some really
famous old timers and celebrities are going
to be there and I'll reserve your seat of honor
right with them! ( Matthew 8:11 )
So hold on to your hat because when every
thing is ready, I'm going to spring it as a big
surprise! And alot of people are going to be
left out in the cold because they didn't answer my invitation.
Let me know right away if you'd like to come,
and I'll reserve you a place and write your name in large golden letters in my great big
Guest Book!
Much Love, Jesus
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