A Very Morgan Christmas 2016

We spent Christmas Eve with our Morgan family and what a day it was. There was plenty of food, love and joy to go around and we enjoyed every minute of it. My first Christmas with the Morgan family was 32 years ago and I think they keep getting better and better. 

This is a fun bunch. We laughed and ate and played music and opened presents and ate a few more times. It was a great day and evening.

We have several pictures to post from our time on Christmas Eve so here we go. I hope you enjoy our very Morgan Christmas!

Davy

A Christmas Sunday Parable

I already posted once today so if you receive this by email you will have to click through to read today's first post.

I had something else rattling around in my head today so what follows is an original Christmas Sunday Parable. You are welcome to re-post if you like with attribution and a link to this original post.

A Christmas Sunday Parable by Davy Boggs

Let us suppose the whole world celebrates the birth of Ronald McDonald. The impact of McDonald's on the world has been so great that once each year the world marks his birth with a tremendous holiday. 

The celebration starts small and builds steadily through the years. As McDonald's expands and is known and loved the world over, Ronald McDonald's birthday takes on wider significance. 

Not every one loves McDonald's, but the influence of McDonald's is so great and so obviously positive that even detractors take part in the celebration each year. It is the world's holiday.

The anticipation for Ronald McDonald's birthday each year builds over many weeks. 

School choirs sing songs in his honor. Mothers bake cookies. Grandfathers tell stories. Families cherish memories. Children wait with great anticipation.

Retail stores, greeting card companies, chocolate companies, jewelry stores and many others depend on Ronald McDonald's birthday celebration for much of their yearly profit. 

Children of every language count down the days with visions of Happy Meals, Cheeseburgers, French Fries and all kinds of gifts dancing in their heads. 

Families and friends gather together in every nation for great feasts of Big Macs, Quarter Pounders, Fillet O'Fish, French Fries and Apple Pies! Some locations even have McRibs for a limited time.

It is the biggest single day of the year. 

Schools and businesses shut down. 

Governments suspend their operations. 

The whole world pauses one day each year to honor the birth of Ronald McDonald and the great institution that bears his name.

But for the purists, the true lovers of McDonald's, a disturbing trend develops. 

It seems that many are celebrating just for the sake of celebrating. They send cards, they buy gifts, they have parties, they sing, they drink and they dance, but there is very little mention of the man that was born or the good things he brought the world. 

The great holiday grows but it is apparent that the real reason for the jubilation has been trivialized at best and perhaps even forgotten.

Ronald McDonald's birthday is the biggest day of the year. There is not another holiday that even compares.

Yet most of the 7 billion people celebrating do not even darken the door of McDonald's on his special day. 

That used to be different. Even though some people did not go much during the year, they used to always go to McDonald's on his birthday. Now there are too many parties to attend and too much fun to be had to bother with a trip to McDonald's that might require and hour or two of their precious holiday time.

Then the final blow. Many of the local McDonald's begin to close their doors on Ronald McDonald's birthday. The people were too busy celebrating his birthday to go to the very place that honors his name.

The holiday celebration goes on but the reason for the season has been relegated to fleeting acknowledgements and trite sentiments displayed with dubious expressions of sincerity.

Think about it a moment. Was your local McDonald's open today? If it was open, did you go?

Found In a Church Bulletin:

Please Remember the Reason for the Season.

There will be no church service Sunday.

See you next year!

I did notice that Waffle House was open all day.

Thank you for reading.

Davy Boggs

Our View At Christmas

May God bless each of you as you go to church this morning and gather with your families to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. We hope you have a very merry Christmas.

Kelly Jo and Odie and I will have our little Christmas this morning in the BoggsMobile. This is our 9th Christmas in the bus. The BoggsMobile seems like part of the family. I guess we should buy it a gift.

Then we will go to our home church, Dryden Rd. Pentecostal Church, at 11:00 AM. We will sing some Christmas songs and listen to our Pastor preach, then we will gather with the Boggs family for Christmas dinner and fun Sunday afternoon.

I am very sure the day will be full of worship, laughter, blessings, food, gifts and family. When the day is finished we will be well satisfied and full of love for our families, friends and Savior. 

Even as we celebrate, we realize this day is not the easiest day for some folks. In the midst of our rejoicing we will pause to pray for those of you that are suffering and mourning. We will ask God to bind up the brokenhearted and set at liberty them that have been bruised. Thank God, that is what He came to do.

May God give us all the things we need the most in our lives. God bless you friends.

Davy

This was our view our the front window Wednesday in West Harrison, Indiana.

This was our view out the front door.

This is our view out the front window from within the barn.