Back in 2016 my church decided it was time to begin
“Really not appropriate to schedule a fast for a feast day,” I pointed out to one of my fellow church attendees.
- SHE. “Feast day? This is a feast day?”
- ME. “It’s still Christmas.”
- SHE. “Christmas was two Fridays ago.”
- ME. “Christmas began two Fridays ago. And ends tomorrow.
It lasts 12 days, remember? ” - SHE. “What lasts 12 days?”
- ME. “Christmas. Remember the song? ‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…’ and each day the singer just kept getting more and more birds? ’Cause Christmas has 12 days.”
- SHE. “Who celebrates it for 12 days?”
- ME. “I celebrate it for 12 days. I’m still eating cookies.”
- SHE. “Well, you can do that if you like. I took the tree down the day after Christmas.”
- ME. “You mean the second day of Christmas.”
- SHE. [irritated scoff]
Tell many a Christian today’s the 11th day of Christmas, and this is the response you’ll get: The irritated scoff. To their minds, Christmas ended last month, and good riddance. They were so done with the holiday once Christmas dinner was over. And if they weren’t, the hassle of returning their Christmas gifts—or the credit card bill—did it for ’em.
Like I said
But if you’ve burnt out on Christmas, it’s because you’ve not really been celebrating Christmas. You’ve been celebrating the awful
In fact Christmas is primarily about how
If your first response was to scoff… you did it wrong.