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It is Christmas Eve, and I am going on a brief blogging hiatus, so I wanted to wish all of you a merry Christmas. I wanted to do that by finding a nice nativity graphic, since that is the true meaning of Christmas and all. I just wanted to send warm wishes and a gentle reminder that we are celebrating our Savior's birth. That's all. But no.....I had to get completely distracted by all of the utterly ridiculous graphics out there and get totally disgusted by how we just have too many choices in our society. You would think one could do a google search for "nativity scene" and just find something simple like this....
You can.....after about 20 minutes of wading through silly, flashy, glittery nonsense. My search turned up some very....ummm.....interesting...renditions of the nativity. Do you want to see what I found? I thought so.... Well, this one wasn't so bad....
....until I realized that it is a 6' inflatable version. I'm actually kind of disappointed that Mr. Holiday doesn't have this. But where is the Baby Jesus' face? There were all kinds of cultural versions ranging from Caucasian to African American to Peruvian. My favorite, however, was this...
Ahhh....the Erin Go Braugh version of Christ's birth. Of course....why didn't I think of that? I'm sure the Magi are bearing a pint of cider, a four-leaf clover and a steaming bowl of bangers and mash! Then we have the island version...
...complete with coconut creche and figures with disturbing eyes. Then every ranch needs one of these....
Yee-haw! I'm not really sure of the ethnicity of this one. It was just called "Nativity in a Canoe." I'm serious....
Then there was the edible Nativity...
I just could not snack on the manger....could you? If you're familiar with Oriental Trading Company at all, you'll know that there are some strange things in their catalogs. I found the following nativity sets amongst their pages....
Snowmen and foam marshmallows. Nice. I was not prepared for this though from another on-line store.....
They actually called it a "Moosetivity." Think you've seen it all, yet? Nope. I have more. For the artsy types there is a bottle cap nativity:
Or how about an inflatable nativity of another variety?
That one may give me nightmares. I did finally find this almost normal one...
But I am very concerned/confused about the throbbing donkey ears and cow nose. What is up with that?! And then Mary and Joseph could not be older than 8, and they are bedecked with holly berries. They didn't have holly berries in Bethlehem, did they? Sigh.....well, it's still better than settling for this....
Good Night!.....could there be a graphic with more bling? That could give someone a seizure! Sorry about that. I just had to show you what is out there on the net. Scary. While I couldn't find the perfect graphic to wish you a merry Christmas, I do want to say that I hope that each one of you has a wonderful celebration with your families. I hope it is full of the peace of knowing Christ as your Savior and coming King. I pray that you have the knowledge of His love and know that whether His image is sculpted out of bottle caps or in the likeness of a cowboy or is 4 feet high and inflated on someone's lawn, that you are important to Him....it is why He came! Have a Blessed CHRISTmas! |
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