[Vision2020] Holiday excess

[Tami Stinebaugh]

I still think Charlie Brown's little Christmas tree was the best Christmas tree ever!  And boy, amazing what those kids can do when they put their minds to decorating (remember the tree went from having about 3 drooping pathetic little branches, to being a full, lush little tree with only a few decorations???) ha ha ha...

Tami Stinebaugh

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Keenan <benjamin_barker@hotmail.com>
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2003 5:26 am
Subject: [Vision2020] Holiday excess

> All this talk about Christmas trees reminded me of something my 
> sister told
> me a couple of days ago. Apparently, she and my mother were sick 
> of the
> hassle over getting the tree from the cut-your-own-lot in Gig 
> Harbor and
> wanted to "go plastic." My stepdad intervened, insisting on a natural
> tree -- the bigger, the better. You see, he seemed to think that the
> Christmas tree was an outward symbol of a family's love for Jesus. 
> No tree?
> You don't love Jesus. Artificial tree? You're rejecting Jesus. 
> Small tree?
> You don't love Jesus very much. So, he told my sister (who attends 
> the same
> Catholic high school I did, and still remains very much in shock 
> over the
> incident) that the tree had to be the biggest, fullest, greenest, 
> most alive
> tree on the lot. Period. End of story.
> 
> I have often wondered how we justify holiday excesses, and now 
> with an
> example from my own family, I think I'm starting to get the 
> picture. His
> heart's in the right place, but somewhere along the lines, the 
> message got
> twisted around.
> 
> ROB
> 
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