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Bad Attitude

Dear Judy, I do not like Christmas! It makes me sad because of all the demands put on me during this time. I am expected to be all things to all people and I just do not want to do that anymore! I am tired of all the commercial stuff and putting my Lord in the background. Even in the church! How do I handle my bad attitude?

Dear Bad Attitude,

I am with you on all points of your letter! Sad to say Christmas stuff is coming earlier and earlier. I saw some out even before Halloween and it was not about the birth of Christ but about the man in the red suit! Sad to say, this is what our children are seeing before they see any decorating for the birth of Christ!

It is our choice to get caught in it all or stay out of it all. If we choose to stay out, just learn to say NO! People pleasers do not know how to say no, but God pleasers do! Only I can put limits on my own life and that is my responsibility to do that or else I too get a bad attitude! No person or circumstance can cause my bad attitude; only I can by not doing what the Lord wants but what people want or expect of me.

So this Christmas season choose to not participate in the commercial side; only in the true reason for the season and that is the birth of Jesus! Choose to stay joyful through it all because of all the Lord has done for us. This is truly a most wonderful time for the whole of humanity and pray that their eyes will open to the truth of that fact! May we all use this time to pray that the entire world might see!

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

Luke 2:13-14

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