I know lots of people are passionate about not celebrating Christmas until the Thanksgiving dishes have been washed. I don't understand what difference it makes if Christmas is in the store. Do these folks seriously do nothing about Christmas until December? I prefer to have the shopping done, the packages ready and the cards prepared all by Thanksgiving. If I am going to buy or make new decorations or make a gift then it better be accomplished by the time the whipped cream is spooned on the pumpkin pie. If I need gift wrap, gift tags, tape, boxes, ribbon, candy, stocking stuffers then I want them before December. The time between the two holidays is short but there is tree decorating and lights on the house, gift wrapping and The Nutcracker and church parties and school parties and holiday movies and choir concerts and baking and candy making and delivering and Christmas caroling all in the month of December. Preferably before the 25th. Okay we don't go caroling. That is our gift to our friends and neighbors.
This year something occurred to me. There are Christians all over the world celebrating Christmas that do not have Thanksgiving as a benchmark. So when is the appropriate time for them to begin the celebration? If you say whenever they want because what other answer is there, then why is that not true for Christians everywhere?
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