Ok the next point I want to go over is Holidays. What Holidays is my family going to celebrate? How are we going to celebrate them? And what will we tell our kids? Now I know some of you know how crazy I am but this and you’ve told me what you think, but please comment anyway.

So I’m going to start at the beginning of the year and moving through, I’m not going to talk about every one, just the main ones. So first is new years, and I don’t see anything wrong with doing something for new years. But, I do see something wrong with the way most people celebrate it. So the way I want to celebrate it with my family will be; staying with them (like not going out with the wife and leaving the kids at home) I think I’ll just make it a special day. Like maybe do something a little different, do some more than normal gamey or fun thing. Maybe get or fix up some fun food and just make it a good fun day.

The next Holiday is Valentine’s Day, and I think this Holiday is one of the dumbest Holidays there is. I think it is one of the reasons husbands don’t do good or nice thing for and with their wives the rest of the year. Now the other thing about it is cupid, you know who I’m talking about, the Roman god of love. So yes we celebrate a Holiday for the Roman god of love, and I think that is wrong. The other thing it does is make young people think they need to date and if you don’t have somebody you feel left out and like a misfit.  

Next is St. Patrick’s Day. Now I will be celebrating this great Holiday. It’s so sad that not many people really know who he is. So let me fill you in on a few things. So St. Patrick is not Irish, he’s English. Now the reason he’s so cool is because he single handedly converted the entire Island of Ireland from there pagan and druid believes to Christianity, after he was one of their slaves for 10 years. So this to me is a very important Holiday and I think we should do a lot more with this one, but more as in things really about him not just more things we do now.

Now it’s time for the Holiday that has the wrong name, so I’m going to call it by its real name not the fake one, I will go over why it has a fake name. Resurrection Sunday is the most important holiday, the day our Lord Jesus rose from the dead and made the way for us to get into heaven. But unfortunately we as a whole celebrate it wrong. First off by calling it Easter, Easter was a pagan holiday going on at the same time Christ was crucified and it was a holiday to honor the gods and goddesses of the earth. It was always done the first part of spring they were thanking the gods for the rebirth of the earth, things were starting to bloom and babies were being born, which is why we use bunnies and eggs they’re a symbol of fertility. We do NOT celebrate Easter. I could go on and on about this but I wont for now.

The next one on my list is….Mothers day (I think to save time I’m going to put Fathers day in with this). Now I think we all agree that this is an important day, it is good to set aside a day to the mothers and fathers, I mean they did do a lot for us. But do you think that this can or has lead to not honoring them enough the rest of the year? Have we forgetting to always respect them and show them that we really do appreciate them? Have we made it harder to be truly good children by putting a day on the calendar that is to be just for them. Now don’t get me wrong, think it’s great to have a day for them, but does that help others not give them the respect they should have every other day of the year?

I know there are more Holidays than the ones I’ve mentioned but this are the ones I want to talk about; I don’t mean to say the other ones are not important. So the next one I’m talking about is Independence Day. Now this is a very important day for our Country, and all the other Democracies in the world, but do we look at this Day right. I think this day should be spent by remembering what our founding fathers wanted and did for us, this should be a day to remember what they went through to do what they did, and a day to remind us that we don’t give up because things look like we can’t win. We the underdogs won then and we as Christians (the underdogs) need to remember that just because it looks imposable it doesn’t mean it over; we can still pull through and win.    

All right now it’s time for the controversial one…Halloween; this is most definitely a holiday that we as Christian should not be a part of. This holiday was started as a pagan tradition by druids, they would kill a animal hollow out its head then us it as a mask so that the evil spirits couldn’t see them and if they found someone who wasn’t wearing a mask they would say “trick or treat” meaning give me a treat or I’ll play a trick on you. Now these trick aren't little practical jokes, they would be things like; kidnapping their kids, burning down their house, killing their livestock, and in some cases killing them. Now I know that that’s not how it is now or what people do, I know most people don’t even know where it came from, but by us continuing this evil tradition we keep something very evil in nature here and alive.

Next come Thanksgiving; there is only one thing I really see wrong with Thanksgiving, when we have our big thanksgiving dinner we become gluttons and that’s something we are never to do, whether we’re having a feast or not. I think its good to have a big meal for Thanksgiving, but that doesn’t mean we should eat until their sick, or eat so much that part way through the meal you need to unbutton your pants because you eat so much, that’s WRONG. I think the way we should do the food part of Thanksgiving more like we eat things that we don’t get to eat very often. It is a very special day, it’s great to meet with family and friends to keep reminding ourselves how much we are thankful for. But that doesn’t mean we need to eat until we throw up.

And last but not least…..Christmas; now I will tell you now I hate Christmas. I love Jesus’ birthday, but that’s not what Christmas is anymore, so I don’t like it. Now I really don’t care if you think I’m a Scrooge or the Grinch because I very firmly believe when something turns from what it was meant to be into something it’s not i needs to be fixed and that’s what I’m going to try to do. First its in like the one month that it would most likely not be in. it’s more likely to be in early summer or fall not the middle of winter. The next thing is there reason for picking 12/25, it was because there was so much evil things going on in this time of the year that they wanted to even it out. People spent so much time on Santa and that part of the holiday and spend almost no time on Christ’s birth, all people in the world (ok maybe not all people) celebrate Christmas and most of them don’t care about Jesus, some even hate him and they thinks it’s wrong to have Jesus in any part of Christmas. THIS IS HOW WE SHOULD FEEL ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO THIS GREAT DAY!!!!! But we don’t…why? I better stop here because if I don’t I’ll go on and on…but I wrote a sermon on it (kind of, it’s about lots of what I don’t like about Christmas but not as much I wanted it to be) it’s on my other blog the on titled brettsermons so if you want read it.