I learn stuff every day, but I forget much of it. Thus, I have to relearn things constantly.
In the past, I have taken a Grinch-like attitude toward
Christmas. I let circumstances or finances
or whatever give me a bad attitude regarding the entire season. I even said, “Bah
humbug” a time or two.
I learned something this year. I heard that “bah humbug” isn’t
and expression of grumbling about Christmas.
I looked it up in the dictionary and discovered that it is really a term
expressing “deception, deluding, something devoid of sense or meaning,
nonsense, or one who is an impostor.”
I used that expression out of ignorance. I had no idea that by
saying, “bah humbug” that I was saying that Christmas is a sham, nonsense or a
grand deception. Essentially, I was expressing disbelief in Jesus birth. I was saying
that He was an impostor. Thus, I asked
forgiveness and will not knowingly use “bah humbug” toward Christmas again,
Lord willing.
“And the times of this
ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.”
Acts 17:30.
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