Who Started This Christmas Stuff?
A woman was Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable; and after hours of hearing both children asking for everything they saw, she finally made it to the elevator with her two kids.
She was feeling what so many of us feel during the holiday time of the year - overwhelming pressure to go to every party, taste all the holiday food, get that perfect gift for every person on our shopping list, make sure we don't forget anyone on our card list, and so on.
The elevator was very crowded as she pushed her way in, dragging her two kids and all the bags of stuff. When the doors closed she couldn't take it anymore and said, "Whoever started this whole Christmas thing should be strung up and shot."
From the back of the elevator a quiet, calm voice respond, "Don't worry, we already crucified Him."
For the rest of the elevator ride, it was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.
This year, don't forget to keep "the One who started this whole Christmas thing" in your every thought, deed, purchase and words. If we all did, just think how different this world would be.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
