Losing Christ in the Holidays
Friday, December 30th, 2005My cousin Theresa flew in Christmas eve from Alabama. I was lucky enough to be selected for airport pickup of her and her two daughters, as I am lucky enough to happen to be the closest family member to O’Hare.
After getting the kids buckled in the safety seats, and settling in for a short ride back to Bolingbrook, I started complaining about the lack of Christmas music [less 90.1 & 93.9] I had heard on the radio this year. Well… Terry, as she likes to be called, informed me that she went to a Kmart in Alabama and was looking to get a new Nativity Scene. She couldn’t find them and asked the store manager where the Nativity Scenes were. The store manager promptly responded saying that they were not allowed to sell Nativity Scenes.
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