Posted on 12/24/2013 7:41:28 AM PST by writer33
Merry Christmas ping!
Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you, as well. I share your sentiments about FReepers.
To My Democrat Liberal “Friends”:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes
for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress,
non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice
holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the
religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your
choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or
traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or
secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful,
personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the
onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2013, but not without
due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose
contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply
that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the
only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made
without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability,
religious faith or sexual preference of the wish.
To My Republican, Conservative and Independent Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 2013.
A very Merry and blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Freepers.
So beautifully written! Thank you writer33 and a very Merry Christmas to you and yours! May you be blessed many times over in 2014.
You are priceless! Merry Christmas and a Joyous and Prosperous New Year to you!
This year was funny as Hanukkah was on Thanksgiving (Thanksgivikkah).
Keep that in mind in 70,000 years when it happens again.
So you can save some electrons by just saying “Merry Christmas.”
Unless you forgot Hanukkah last month at which point you have to invest MORE electrons by saying “belated Hanukkah!”
:) :) :)
Merry Christmas and belated Hanukkah, writer33, to you and yours!
And to FR — God bless us, every one.
What we know as modern liberalism is one of the follies of mankind. It attempts to force the generosity that God always wanted to be voluntary and cheerful, and does it through a clumsy, inefficient apparatus which expects to be deified.
But let us also not fall into the wrong of idolizing a different worldly political scheme. What we call conservatism was how a wise earthly government operated. It was not meant to take root in our hearts, and when it does it becomes a false idol.
We shall not be truly blessed until we are grasping the Lord in earnest. This was a happy concomitant to how America formed. Perfectly, no. There were abominations. But the goodness continued in spite of the abominations.
Now faith is becoming flaccid. We really need to accept the Christ child again in our hearts like little children. And accept that He has the might to impart all righteousness to anyone willing. Call upon the Lord so that our future will not be as good as our past. Let it be better!
I echo your sentiments about FReepers and would add how many have contributed to my growth as a conservative.
Merry Christmas to you and yours and wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year...
God Bless.
Well crafted. Kudos.
Nice post. :-)
Merry Christmas, Chris! Good to see you’re still at it.
And Merry Christmas to all the FR wise-guys. We know who we are....
I’m going to steal that for my FB.
The only thing really worth conserving is the presence of the Lord.
It impinges on all endeavors of man.
Don’t take the plan for a wise earthly government and make it the focus of your heart for all matters. It can’t be. And in practice it often isn’t, but it is helpful to make the explicit distinction. Let’s be wise and “conservative” in earthly government; let’s be wise and “liberal” in private life. All through the presence of the Lord.
Follow it up, perhaps, with a refrain of “O Come O Come Emmanuel.”
Thank you, CL.
Love that song, “O Come O Come Emmanuel.”
Merry Christmas from Texas
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Thank you silentgypsy.
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