"But alot of good things are done," I have been told, as a way to support Christmas.
Yes that's true, alot of good things are done at that time of year. But does that suddenly justify it? Does that make a wrong thing right?
Here is just a few of the many good things done at Christmas time.
visiting nursing homes and goody packages given to the residents there,
helping out at mission centers,
help packages sent to poor kids in 3rd world countries,
toy and food drives for the underprivileged,
goody packages and cards given to kids in the hospital,
visiting prisons,
donations made to charitable organizations,
blankets given to the homeless
All good things, but these things can be done all the time all year long!! God wants us to be meeting the needs of others everyday.
Another thing that Christmas does though not really related to the things mentioned above, is that is boost the economy. I guess that's good right?
I know theres always news on it after the biggest shopping day of the year ( day after Thanksgiving). Our economy just thrives on all those sales of Christmas stuff. Truly I do not know where the economy would be with out it.
But does that make it right?
And I wonder what God thinks of that as he looks down from above? All these people running around doing their shopping on all kinds of unnecessary things, some spending money they don't even have, but doing it all in preparing for Christmas.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
honouring God ( Christmas/birthday )
Here's another thought on Christmas.
Say there was nothing pagan at all about birthdays. Still would Jesus really be pleased or honoured by his birthday being remembered?
I mean we are are earthly. We are fleshly. We love to be remembered , and we love to be given gifts. Its kind of nice to have our very own special day. And children look forward to their birthdays, they are eager to see what surprise you have for them.
But Jesus is so much different than us that way. He is heavenly. Does those things mean anything to Him? If the early Christains did birthdays back then he may have been in to it while on earth, but now?
But there is alot of things that does honour and please our Lord that we can do for him. Here is just a few.
Our pure and undefiled love and obedience to Him
feeding the poor
visit the widowes and the elderly,
visit the prisoned,
take care of the orphaned,
love our children,
remember His death,
just simply living our lives for His glory
Thats how we can honour God.
Also we have to remember that Jesus didn't just come into existence when he was born as a baby, like our earthly babies are. He always was. He was from the very beginning. So His life didn't just start when he was born.
Say there was nothing pagan at all about birthdays. Still would Jesus really be pleased or honoured by his birthday being remembered?
I mean we are are earthly. We are fleshly. We love to be remembered , and we love to be given gifts. Its kind of nice to have our very own special day. And children look forward to their birthdays, they are eager to see what surprise you have for them.
But Jesus is so much different than us that way. He is heavenly. Does those things mean anything to Him? If the early Christains did birthdays back then he may have been in to it while on earth, but now?
But there is alot of things that does honour and please our Lord that we can do for him. Here is just a few.
Our pure and undefiled love and obedience to Him
feeding the poor
visit the widowes and the elderly,
visit the prisoned,
take care of the orphaned,
love our children,
remember His death,
just simply living our lives for His glory
Thats how we can honour God.
Also we have to remember that Jesus didn't just come into existence when he was born as a baby, like our earthly babies are. He always was. He was from the very beginning. So His life didn't just start when he was born.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Eating a healthy breakfast
I have just added a new goal to my goal list.
It is eating a healthy breaksfast every morning for a month!! And then we will see from there.
What has brought this on is that more often than not I find my self srambling arounnd at the last mintue in the mornings trying to figure out what to have for breakfast , and it ends up being somthing sweet.
So to fix this problem I have descided to plan a head on breakfast. Plan for somthing healthy. That will hopefully give me energy for the day and make me feel good.
Latly by mid morning I have been feeling so tired and sluggish and I have blamed it on my junky breakfast. Mostly the breaksfastest was sweet dry cerael, or sweetend oatmeal, toast with sweet jelly, or pancakes with sweet toppings, and occasionally eggs. Oh and when i was still hvaing cooffee it was 2 to 3 cups of coffee a morning with 1/4 tsp. sugar to each. I feel the comination of the coffee and the sweet breaksfast gave me a very bad start on the day.
I have know for so long that breakfast is the most importian meal of the day. But i was not treating it like it was.
So to start my ,"healthy breakfast for one month", off this morning I had scrambled eggs with hot dogs ( i know hot dogs is not to healthy but thier not sweet and thats what i am foucesing on right now), toast with only butter, a bannana and a glasss of milk.
My Dad is diabetic and just recently they have found out it you cut out almost all starches and go mostly raw you can reverse diabeteas. They have the book Death to Diabetes. www.DeathtoDiabetes.com Anyway it said just to focus on breakfast first, cut out all startches, and have brocile and brussle sprouts alot. He has cut back on his insulin since hes been doing that. I think he has been doing that about a month now. I will talk more baout that in a futuer post.
Anyway i was thinking i would probably feel good too if i had brocile and brussle sprouts for breafast!! I really ought to try it!!
If any one has good healthy breafast ideas plaease tell me!
It is eating a healthy breaksfast every morning for a month!! And then we will see from there.
What has brought this on is that more often than not I find my self srambling arounnd at the last mintue in the mornings trying to figure out what to have for breakfast , and it ends up being somthing sweet.
So to fix this problem I have descided to plan a head on breakfast. Plan for somthing healthy. That will hopefully give me energy for the day and make me feel good.
Latly by mid morning I have been feeling so tired and sluggish and I have blamed it on my junky breakfast. Mostly the breaksfastest was sweet dry cerael, or sweetend oatmeal, toast with sweet jelly, or pancakes with sweet toppings, and occasionally eggs. Oh and when i was still hvaing cooffee it was 2 to 3 cups of coffee a morning with 1/4 tsp. sugar to each. I feel the comination of the coffee and the sweet breaksfast gave me a very bad start on the day.
I have know for so long that breakfast is the most importian meal of the day. But i was not treating it like it was.
So to start my ,"healthy breakfast for one month", off this morning I had scrambled eggs with hot dogs ( i know hot dogs is not to healthy but thier not sweet and thats what i am foucesing on right now), toast with only butter, a bannana and a glasss of milk.
My Dad is diabetic and just recently they have found out it you cut out almost all starches and go mostly raw you can reverse diabeteas. They have the book Death to Diabetes. www.DeathtoDiabetes.com Anyway it said just to focus on breakfast first, cut out all startches, and have brocile and brussle sprouts alot. He has cut back on his insulin since hes been doing that. I think he has been doing that about a month now. I will talk more baout that in a futuer post.
Anyway i was thinking i would probably feel good too if i had brocile and brussle sprouts for breafast!! I really ought to try it!!
If any one has good healthy breafast ideas plaease tell me!
Friday, August 6, 2010
An appology
I feel like I need to add here that I have written a post on Christmas this past winter that some of you have probably read. So you may be wondering why again? What posses her with Christmas anyway?
Well for one thing I deleted that post. I felt it came accross way to judging, to harsh and I just was not pleased with it. And I apploize for that. So i deleletd it.
But yet I did so very much want to share why it is I don't keep Chrsitmas, why I feel its not right, and also just my personal thoughts on it.
So thats why I come yet again with a post or should I say posts on Christmas. This time I am making them short and easy to read. And I am trying very hard to make them come accross very kind ,thoughtful and considerate.
I do not want to shirk from the truth but i want to present it in a very caring way. I don't want to turn any one off or hurt anyone. If I did I would not be achieving a thing.
I feel this is somthing that God has put heavy on my heart to share with others. Infact this alone was one of the main reasons I started my blog in the first place. This and a a few other things I felt God wanted to me to share. God has been putting other things on my heart and mind as well right along.
So if I have alreay hurt someone with this series of post on Christmas I deeply appolize. And I would hope you would continue to hang with me and hear what all eles I have to share on this.
I am so very thankful to God that I have this way of sharing with others.
Remmeber I love your comments!! And would love to hear your thoughts on this thus far.
Well for one thing I deleted that post. I felt it came accross way to judging, to harsh and I just was not pleased with it. And I apploize for that. So i deleletd it.
But yet I did so very much want to share why it is I don't keep Chrsitmas, why I feel its not right, and also just my personal thoughts on it.
So thats why I come yet again with a post or should I say posts on Christmas. This time I am making them short and easy to read. And I am trying very hard to make them come accross very kind ,thoughtful and considerate.
I do not want to shirk from the truth but i want to present it in a very caring way. I don't want to turn any one off or hurt anyone. If I did I would not be achieving a thing.
I feel this is somthing that God has put heavy on my heart to share with others. Infact this alone was one of the main reasons I started my blog in the first place. This and a a few other things I felt God wanted to me to share. God has been putting other things on my heart and mind as well right along.
So if I have alreay hurt someone with this series of post on Christmas I deeply appolize. And I would hope you would continue to hang with me and hear what all eles I have to share on this.
I am so very thankful to God that I have this way of sharing with others.
Remmeber I love your comments!! And would love to hear your thoughts on this thus far.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Christmas ( heathen cutoms to glorify God?)
So if you have been following thus far on my series on Christmas you will have an understaning of the many tradtions and customs that have pagan origins.
So now with that knowledge we can go to a concordance and look under heathen, and find many places where God was not pleased with the ways of the heathen. And God certainly did not want his people picking up those ways.
Here is just a few scriptuers on that but i would urge you to look up your own as welll.
2 chronicles 36:14
Jer. 10:2
Ezekiel 36:24
In Jer. 10: 3-4 , we read of a heathen practice of cuting down a tree and decorating it. It sounds so much like the christmas tree and it makes me wonder if thats where the custom of the christmas tree came from.
So if God was not pleased with his people taking on heathen pratices and cutoms back then , don't you think He still feels the same today.
Aslo if the origin of birthdays them selves were pagan then how could cleabrting Jesus's birthday which christmas is all about , possibly be glorifying to God. We can not take a pagan thing and make it pure to God.
Well i will write more soon. I just want to keep these post short and easy to read.
So now with that knowledge we can go to a concordance and look under heathen, and find many places where God was not pleased with the ways of the heathen. And God certainly did not want his people picking up those ways.
Here is just a few scriptuers on that but i would urge you to look up your own as welll.
2 chronicles 36:14
Jer. 10:2
Ezekiel 36:24
In Jer. 10: 3-4 , we read of a heathen practice of cuting down a tree and decorating it. It sounds so much like the christmas tree and it makes me wonder if thats where the custom of the christmas tree came from.
So if God was not pleased with his people taking on heathen pratices and cutoms back then , don't you think He still feels the same today.
Aslo if the origin of birthdays them selves were pagan then how could cleabrting Jesus's birthday which christmas is all about , possibly be glorifying to God. We can not take a pagan thing and make it pure to God.
Well i will write more soon. I just want to keep these post short and easy to read.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Christmas
Ok, so i found that site i mentioned thats on the origins of Christmas. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
Also here is one on the pagan origins of birthdays. http://www.cogwriter.com/birthdays.htm
I have info i printed off another site that has good info on pagan origins of birthdays as well, but when i tryed sharing that link here it just said page was not found. So i can not share that other link here.
But you can google this on google search and find several sites that way. Also if you have an enecylopedia you can look christmas up in there. That will give you a base of where i cam coming from and will give you some understanding in what i will be sharing in up-coming posts
I will be posting more on this soon.
Also here is one on the pagan origins of birthdays. http://www.cogwriter.com/birthdays.htm
I have info i printed off another site that has good info on pagan origins of birthdays as well, but when i tryed sharing that link here it just said page was not found. So i can not share that other link here.
But you can google this on google search and find several sites that way. Also if you have an enecylopedia you can look christmas up in there. That will give you a base of where i cam coming from and will give you some understanding in what i will be sharing in up-coming posts
I will be posting more on this soon.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Christmas
Most that read my blog know already that my family and I do not celebrate Christmas. In fact I never even once have in my life time .
The reason my parents were against it and why we are still, is of the pagan origins that go with all most all of the traditions and customs of Christmas. And by reading in Bible we can clearly see that God was very displeased with his people using pagan and heathen things to worship Him.
Even though i have known all my life Christmas is wrong ,i have only just recently come aware of even more and more things that make it so obvious that Christmas is not something that Jesus would be pleased with.
I plan to make several short easy to read post on that over the next month.
If this is a totally knew concept to any one. I apoizie for the bluntness this may come accross. Or the shock you may be feeing at the moment. Since I never have cleabrated christmas i do not know how it feels to have beeen doing somthing you felt was so honouring to Jesus for so long, and then have some one suddenly tell you that just the opposite is true.
To get you a base on what I talking about concering the tradtions having pagan origins you can google christmas pagan origins or Birthday pagan origins. This last winter I found a really good site on that by doing google search, but i have missed placed it some where. So when i find it i will sare that in up coming posts as well.
I would hope you will be eager and intrested to hear what i have to share on this and not be upset at me.
So keep on the out look for coming posts on Christmas, and hold off on purchasing that early gift just now, cause your mind is apt to be changed afterwards!!
The reason my parents were against it and why we are still, is of the pagan origins that go with all most all of the traditions and customs of Christmas. And by reading in Bible we can clearly see that God was very displeased with his people using pagan and heathen things to worship Him.
Even though i have known all my life Christmas is wrong ,i have only just recently come aware of even more and more things that make it so obvious that Christmas is not something that Jesus would be pleased with.
I plan to make several short easy to read post on that over the next month.
If this is a totally knew concept to any one. I apoizie for the bluntness this may come accross. Or the shock you may be feeing at the moment. Since I never have cleabrated christmas i do not know how it feels to have beeen doing somthing you felt was so honouring to Jesus for so long, and then have some one suddenly tell you that just the opposite is true.
To get you a base on what I talking about concering the tradtions having pagan origins you can google christmas pagan origins or Birthday pagan origins. This last winter I found a really good site on that by doing google search, but i have missed placed it some where. So when i find it i will sare that in up coming posts as well.
I would hope you will be eager and intrested to hear what i have to share on this and not be upset at me.
So keep on the out look for coming posts on Christmas, and hold off on purchasing that early gift just now, cause your mind is apt to be changed afterwards!!
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