Annual Christ in Christmas Campaign
A Little Advent Proselytizing

Have you purchased stamps for mailing your Christmas cards yet (hopefully ones with a religious theme)? When you buy stamps, be sure you don't just ask for Christmas stamps. Nope. You want to ask nice and loud so everyone nearby can hear you that you want the "Blessed Virgin and Baby Jesus" stamps!

Besides reminding everyone the reason for the season, an added bonus is trying to catch the reaction of anyone close. Some people will give you a dirty look, others will actually squirm, and some even share a nice, affirming smile.

Your next mission is during shopping trips, especially at the super-secular stores that won't let their employees wish you a Merry Christmas. After you pay the tab, be sure to wish the sales person a cheerful "Merry Christmas!" They will usually feel obliged to respond, or they may beat you and say it first, but you'll get the occasional "Seasons Greetings." In your warmest Christian smile, you inquire, "And what season would that be?" They hem, haw, and tap dance, but usually answer truthfully, "Well, ummm, Christmas." To which you respond again, "Merry Christmas to you, too!"

If you have other "Keep Christ in Christmas" ideas, let's hear about them. One I'm waiting to see is for someone with one of those life-size Navity scenes on their front lawn to put a 4'x8' sign next to it that says "Thank God Mary was pro-life."