Year after year Christmas gets its start earlier and earlier. This year it began before Halloween. Maybe it’s because of the recession, but really do we need to see Christmas before Halloween? It’s the retailer’s way of saying “You had better start your shopping before time runs out!” I have come to the conclusion that two very important factors are being forgotten: 1) Thanksgiving is a month before Christmas and 2) Christmas is the Christian celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ, not a celebration of retail shopping! Okay, even if you aren’t a Christian and don’t celebrate Christmas as Jesus’ Birthday, it still has more meaning to it than buying ugly sweaters and unwanted doodads (we can save this subject for another time)! Too often people are forgetting these factors. Can we please put aside the Christmas decorations and the shopping and remember Thanksgiving this year??? We have a lot to be Thankful for in this World. I for one am thankful that I had this opportunity to share my thoughts with everyone who reads this.
It was a week before Thanksgiving and preparations had already started!
Decorations crowded the stores and the season shown in everyone’s smiles.
The air was brisk, as children prayed for snow.
Traffic was backed up every street corner I turned.
The Turkey’s thawing in the refrigerator,
The china and crystal have been cleaned.
The House is in tip, top shape, for the guests we will be greeting.
Not one cobweb can be seen, fluttering from the ceiling.
Grandma’s eyes are gleaming, while Grandpa is fast asleep in front of the TV.
Finally with one flip of the switch, THE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS UP????
WHAT?
CHRISTMAS TREE?
What happened to Thanksgiving?
You know, turkey and stuffing, family and friends, a little football on the television!
Thanking our creator and each other, for what we truly love and have!
Thanking…Thanksgiving!!
They go hand in hand!
Have we forgotten this holiday that’s so important to our lives?
Can we not set one short season aside to say THANK YOU?
Thank you that we are alive?
Or have the presents, the trees, the lights and the hype of Christmas become so much that we have forgotten, not only Thanksgiving, but that it’s not presents but the Birth of Jesus Christ, that Christmas is about?
Thanksgiving has been forgotten much earlier this year…
The trees are up,
Christmas Carols are being blared.
Santa Clause has already come to town, weeks ago apparently!
So since people have forgotten to prepare for Thanksgiving this year
Here are the thanks that are in my heart….
Thank you for my life, health, family and friends!
The food that will be at my table when others will have none!
Thank you for my husband’s job and our home!
Thank you for my community that will share with those that have no one!
Thank you for my country, great land of liberty, and those that are protecting
us far from home!
Thank you for not letting me forget that Thanksgiving is a meaningful time of
our autumn season!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING and thank you for being you, my friends and family!
Copyright © November 12, 2009
Sandie Becker
