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By: Mark Azzara

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Christmas cards photo by St0rmz/Wikipedia

By Mark Azzara

Dear Friend,

OK, OK, I get it. Christmas is an irresistible marketing gambit. But yesterday’s mail contained a totally unexpected packet. It was filled with Christmas cards, sent by a Christian charity. Christmas cards. In September.

The charity is offering these Christ-centered cards because it wants to “keep Christ in Christmas.” But Christmas cards in September is a great way to take Christ out of Christmas because this charity is behaving like money-grubbing retailers, some of which already have Christmas trees on display.

I’m thinking of writing a polite note asking what’s up with Christmas cards in September! I will give them a chance to explain. They deserve that. If they feel like apologizing that would be fine, too. But I haven’t even started to think about the Christmas holiday yet because it’s not time.

In a way Christmas comes every day because it’s the day when Christ came into the world. In that sense I should celebrate today because Christ is a part of my life today. I want Him to be. I invite Him to be.

But He and I have a lot of other things to deal with today. Christmas cards can wait – until Christmastime.

All God’s blessings – Mark

Mark Azzara
Mark Azzara
Mark Azzara spent 45 years in print journalism, most of them with the Waterbury Republican in Connecticut, where he was a features writer with a special focus on religion at the time of his retirement. He also worked for newspapers in New Haven and Danbury, Conn. At the latter paper, while sports editor, he won a national first-place writing award on college baseball. Azzara also has served as the only admissions recruiter for a small Catholic college in Connecticut and wrote a self-published book on spirituality, "And So Are You." He is active in his church and facilitates two Christian study groups for men. Azzara grew up in southern California, graduating from Cal State Los Angeles. He holds a master's degree from the University of Connecticut.

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