Keep Christ In Christmas

Now here's a challenge for us all! In a day and age where little focus is given to the true meaning of Christmas, we believers have a personal and spiritual responsibility to promote the real "Reason for the Season".

Dabak and I attended and participated in Ringwood Corp's Companion Club Christmas Breakup today, where Louise Teisberg's poem "When Jesus Called That Christmas Week" was shared in a closing devotional by Lieutenant Angela Locke as a challenge to keep Christ in Christmas.
Here are the words for your personal reflection.

When Jesus called that Christmas week I wasn't at my best;

And the house was much too cluttered to entertain a guest.

He seemed to notice everything, the cards still unaddressed;

The gifts piled high awaiting wraps, the baking and the rest.

His eyes fell on the evergreen and the presents 'neath the tree,

It's my birthday that you celebrate ~ what are you giving me?

'What am I giving him?' I thought; ashamed, no words I found.

So many costly things I'd bought, he looked at me and frowned.

I prayed he'd let the question pass, but when he did persist,

I blurted out the truth at last, "You were not on my list."