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Re: WHAT!?! No Christmas???
I have only read the first few pages of this thread but I must confess I LOVE the "trappings" of Christmas. I believe you can enjoy the decorations, themes, etc of the Holiday Season without being obsessed or consumed by them.
Of course I know the REAL reason for the season but that doesn't take away from the fun of decorated Christmas trees, Christmas lights, Nativity scenes, other decorations, Santa Claus, etc, etc.
I love giving gifts and don't really expect any. I use the great sales of the season to buy myself whatever gifts I would like (this year a new GPS I use for work, a new MP3 player, a new printer, etc). I derive a lot of joy from thinking about what gifts my children and grandchildren will enjoy and then surprising them with them. It is an expression of love and the dollar amount of that expression can vary greatly from year to year depending on our budget but my children are never disappointed no matter how big or small their gifts might be as they know it is the thought behind them.
One has the right to abstain from the Holiday Season celebrations but despite whatever they might say I believe they are missing something wonderful.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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