Boycott

Merry Christmas or happy holidays? Which is it? For us, it's clearly Merry Christmas. We are approaching the Christmas season, and I'm getting very excited to approach it a little differently this year. We will be reading daily family devotions from Advent through Epiphany out of a book called Celebrate Jesus At Christmas, by Kimberly Ingalls Reese (thanks, Cheryl!). Yesterday, while at the Holy Land Experience, we purchased a non-breakable nativity that the kids can handle without fear of smashing! Santa will be greatly minimized. The kids will not be creating wish lists, nor will they be going through magazines checking off all the goodies they would love to have. That's not Christmas...that's selfish. It's taken us a while to realize this, but we feel moved by the Holy Spirit this year to do it differently. Christmas has become extremely materialistic, with less and less to do with Christ. I mean, seriously...why do we celebrate Christmas? If it's not to celebrate Christ, then why call it Christmas? Just call it a holiday....

And before someone thinks we're being a scrooge, we do want our kids to enjoy the Christmas season...but for the true meaning. I think we'll have a great time celebrating Christ's birth!

Which is what some stores are doing this year. Per the American Family Association, once again, Gap, Inc. is refusing to recognize Christmas. Their stores include G*p, Old N*vy, and B*nana Republic. For this reason, we will be boycotting their stores, along with any other stores that will not recognize Christmas. The term holiday is too generic, and they would be blind to admit that a majority of their shoppers are not shopping for Christmas presents. I have no problem if they want to advertise for other holidays as well, after all, this is a religiously free country (at the moment).

If you would like more information, you can visit http://action.afa.net/takeaction/gap/ where they discuss it, as well as provide a place to sign up for their boycott.