I'm about to piss some people off, but it just needs to be said. If the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Living Water, Way the Truth and the Light never celebrated one of his 33 birthdays, why do so many people go around every year yelling, "Happy birthday Jesus!" like it's just the thing to do? I mean, when you get right down to it, historical evidence shows that Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus' birth date. In fact, most holidays evolved from Pagan celebrations. Hey, the Romans liked to party, and they had their own gods. It was never about Jesus. Somebody just switched it around to look like a Christian thing to do. What, did somebody feel sorry for him because he never had a party in his honor? That wasn't what he was here for; the mission was to save lives--mission accomplished by the way. But back to my thought. Jesus never celebrated a birthday--and wasn't really into going to other people's parties because they got out of hand. You know how we always take it waaaay too far to the left with the whole "I'll do anything ridiculous I want because it's all about me" mentality. "Off with his head; I'll have that on a silver platter" ring a bell? Notice Jesus never had that attitude either. But I digress.
I've been tossing around some ideas about why my people don't celebrate birthdays, and I pretty much understand that it's because they always get out of hand, and anybody who claims to follow Jesus should do so as closely as humanly possible. Now, let's get it all the way right--Jesus never had sex either, but that wasn't the job. See, the people who left me in paragraph one will never get the bottom line because they're pissed off, or they never read my thoughts anyway, but for the remainder of you, I'm just saying we can't go getting carried away with stuff and losing our minds in "all about me" land if we claim to follow Jesus because that just isn't his way. I recognize birthdays in my house because they're milestones. I'm grateful for all our milestones, and we share ours with family and friends. With all the loss of life around me, I'm even more focused on quality of life, and each anniversary is kind of a big deal because each of those days changed my life. It's a shame that this year bammas have been waived from my team though. They just didn't make the cut. But I'm dead serious about that Christmas thing though. Look it up. A lot of people have been on the wrong track for a long time, but most of us know it's about commerce and do it anyway. To each his own. Christmas has some real good tunes though! "Hey Rudolph! Won't you guide my sleigh?..." Tell me the Temps didn't crank them joints out! What?! Don't even get me started on the J5.
From the mind of:
Tonya D. Floyd,
You just gotta love TFloyd.
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birthday, celebration, christmas, faith, holiday, jesus, pagan
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