Posted on 12/24/2004 6:53:52 AM PST by JimRed
I searched under Christmas, but found no formal exchange of greetings thread. So, let me start it off.
Peace and Joy to all of you at Christmas, and health, wealth and happiness in the New Year!
Merry CHRISTmas, JimRed. God Bless you and yours.
I just came back from New Jersey.
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I have asked the Mods to add the word Christmas to the title; I forgot it!
Merry Christmas, JimRed. May the spirit of the Christ Child be with us all. And to our military around the world, thank you for all you do. Without your courage and love of country and family we would be so much less than we are.
Merry Christmas to all.
And by the way I consider "happy holidays" as the PC equivilant of "Bah-Humbug"
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Peace on Earth, and Good Will Towards Men
from an atheist -- (we're not all bad)
A big Amen to that!
A special Merry Christmas all the DU lurkers and trolls.
Visualops, that's the best card ever! I GOTTA learn to do that stuff! Merry christmas!
Heehee, trying to remember all the folks who ping me :-)
Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas, and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Btw, my grandaughter Jenna arrived on December 22. 8lbs, 3oz...19 1/2 inches long. Early Christmas present :-)
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Emmanuel
(by Clayton Frost)
Emmanuel, sweet child of Bethlehem,
Almighty God who choose with man to dwell
Who came to earth to ransom fallen men,
And died the message of Gods love to tell.
His birth was in a dirty stable stall.
The cattle’s manger was his only bed.
The King of Glory, Master over all,
Asleep where all the animals were fed.
The shepherds came and offered him their praise,
Who heard the angels’ wondrous voices sing.
The wise men tracked the star for many days,
And many precious gifts to him did bring.
Messiah, God with us, Emmanuel,
Forever in our hearts may Jesus dwell
Happy Holy-days!
"Merry Christx & Have a Blessed New Year!
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Now I must go out before the supermarket closes, (4 days this year) to get those last minute things I have forgotten in 5 hours of shopping today!
Amen to Happy Holy-Days!
The very Merriest of Christmases to you and yours and a blessed, safe, healthy and happy New Year.
Lots of Love and Hugs to you and yours......
*TT*, Beth & Logan
Behold I bring to you good tidings of great joy,which shall be to all people.for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,which is Christ the Lord." sort of says it best I reckon - A Savior,which is Christ the Lord.
We can eithe rknow the Truth and be set free--or we can
turn from the Truth and choose bondage.Our Savior is Christ
not Allah,Mohammed, nor any man. What an awesome AWESOME
Story.
unto us is born a Savior!!!
"I searched under Christmas..."
You were peeking? under the tree?
Merry Christmas, anyway. (to all, and to all a good night.)
Peace amd Joy and Merry Christmas to all!
Merry Christmas to you too!
"You were peeking? under the tree?"
My Christmas cry is always "Don't look in the bags!"
Merry Christmas to you and to all freepers and lurkers, where ever in the world they are!
These are simple words, but if we analyze them carefully, we discover an important, yet often overlooked, theological fact: There is no mention of wrapping paper.
If there had been wrapping paper, Matthew would have said so: "And lo, the gifts were inside 600 square cubits of paper. And the paper was festooned with pictures of Frosty the Snowman.
And Joseph was going to throweth it away, but Mary saideth unto him, she saideth, 'Holdeth it! That is nice paper! Saveth it for next year!' And Joseph did rolleth his eyeballs. And the baby Jesus was more interested in the paper than the frankincense."
But these words do not appear in the Bible, which means that the very first Christmas gifts were NOT wrapped. This is because the people giving those gifts had two important characteristics:
1. They were wise.
2. They were men.
Men are not big gift wrappers. Men do not understand the point of putting paper on a gift just so somebody else can tear it off. This is not just my opinion: This is a scientific fact based on a statistical survey of two guys I know.
One is Rob, who said the only time he ever wraps a gift is "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."
The other is Gene, who told me he does wrap gifts, but as a matter of principle never takes more than 15 seconds per gift. "No one ever had to wonder which presents daddy wrapped at Christmas," Gene said. "They were the ones that looked like enormous spitballs."
I also wrap gifts, but because of some defect in my motor skills, I can never completely wrap them. I can take a gift the size of a deck of cards and put it the exact center of a piece of wrapping paper the size of a regulation volleyball court, but when I am done folding and taping, you can still see a sector of the gift peeking out. (Sometimes I camouflage this sector with a marking pen.)
If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by Scotch tape.
On the other hand, if you give my wife a 12-inch square of wrapping paper, she can wrap a C-130 cargo plane. My wife, like many women, actually likes wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness. If it were possible, my wife would wrap each individual volt.
My point is that gift-wrapping is one of those skills like having babies that come more naturally to women than to men.
That is why today I am presenting: GIFT-WRAPPING TIPS FOR MEN:
* Whenever possible, buy gifts that are already wrapped. If, when the recipient opens the gift, neither one of you recognizes it, you can claim that it's myrrh.
* The editors of Woman's Day magazine recently ran an item on how to make your own wrapping paper by printing a design on it with an apple sliced in half horizontally and dipped in a mixture of food coloring and liquid starch. They must be smoking crack.
* If you're giving a hard-to-wrap gift, skip the wrapping paper! Just put it inside a bag and stick one of those little adhesive bows on it. This creates a festive visual effect that is sure to delight the lucky recipient on Christmas morning:
YOUR WIFE: Why is there a Hefty trash bag under the tree?
YOU: It's a gift bag! See? It has a bow!
YOUR WIFE (peering into the trash bag): It's a leaf blower.
YOU: Gas-powered! Five horsepower!
YOUR WIFE: I want a divorce.
YOU: I also got you some myrrh.
In conclusion, remember that the important thing is not what you give, or how you wrap it. The important thing, during this very special time of year, is that you save the receipt."
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
BTTT!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas to one and all!
Merry Christmas!
Christ our Savior is Born!
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Your post captured the spirit of the blue times exactly.
Now, who do I contact so I can sue someone?
Thanks JR! And same to you and all my FRiends. Love and prayers going out to all our armed service men and women, wherever they are...
JESUS is the reason for this Blessed Season!
Be bless all during this time of celebrating Christ - CHRISTmas
Funny post ;-D
Merry Christmas, friend!
Went Christmas shopping on the Navy base at Yokosuka today, and greatly enjoyed giving and receiving lots of "Merry Christmas" greetings.
And to all here, Merry Christmas.
A Very Happy and Healthy Chrismas to all my fellow FReepers!
May the Lord bless each and every Freeper this Christmas season and throughout the New Year.
Jaded
That's great! Merry Christmas.
Da berrry bestest at Christmas is LOVE. Found a lot here at FR.
Remember the guy at the football games with the rainbow hair and the sign "John 3:16"?
"For God so LOVED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,......". THAT IS love. Thanks.
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Oh My.....signs of Christmas Future???
Thanks...I didn't make it, but animations are not too terribly difficult.
You just make 2 or 3 images and loop them using a program that creates GIF animations, such as PaintShop Pro Animation Shop. For this you'd get the tree, and then make copies with the different lights.
Or one can use Flash to make animations.
Funny! And true.
Best Christmas gift I ever got was wrapped in a Kleenex. LOL
I was 12. My dad had bought me a beautiful Swiss watch but had fogotten to give it to my mom to wrap. So he swathed the box in Kleenex at the very last minute!
Maybe some of you fellows can use this little wrapping tip.
Merry Christmas to all!
Veto!
Aluminum foil is a good emergency wrap, too!
Thank you!
May the Good Lord shower you with blessings this Christmas season.
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