Sooo... I called my insurance company yesterday to confirm my change of address, and of course they were extremely nice. Mainly because it's through USAA which mainly serves the military. Anyway, at the end of the phone call they wished me a Happy Holiday, being government PC and all. It went like this... "Seargent Hill, is there anything I can do for you further, to make your evening more enjoyable?" I said, "no". She said, "Well, I would like to wish you and your family a Happy Holiday!" For one, they still call me by my rank, which I've been out now for three years. I guess it's something they just do. I proceeded to say that in my neck of the woods we still say Merry Christmas, and she just laughed... She then told me that I of all people know why they have to say Happy Holidays, but thanked me for not bowing down to the almighty PC. :) I thought that was pretty funny, but annoying none the less. It's kind of a crummy feeling to know that our nation under God, indevisible etc. etc... is no longer under God, and has been divided right down the center. This Happy Holidays thing started while I was in the military, at least the government mandated pc portion of it anyway. It always made me second guess my whole attitude of service... I spent the better part of 7 years defending a nation of self serving, unappreciative.... I'll stop there in my description, before I say something that may offend someone. The fact that people have the audacity here in the states to make a rule about having Christ in any word is really appauling. I was home for 1 Christmas, and 1 Thanksgiving in all of those years... When I did come home after that time, I found that Christmas had been turned into a frenzy of angry people fighting over things that frankly didn't even matter. Don't get me wrong... I like recieving gifts, but Christmas is more then that to me. It's a reminder now, off all the lost times and sattelite phone calls made from distant lands to my family on Christmas Eve. I'm truly thankful for this time of year, and even more so now! I could honestly care less if I get any gift at all, and I truly mean that. I wish that I could spend tons and tons of money on my family to show my appreciation for them, and get nothing in return. The budget is tight this year and a lot of families are feeling the strain and stress of providing gifts. Is it not enough that everyone is alive and healthy. By the way... Why do we get gifts anyway? I mean, Christ was born, and some how I get a gift for that. It's kind of like how I work, and then someone else reaps the benifits of all the taxes I pay in, when they had to do nothing at all... I won't go into that, that's a whole other blog. I'm thankful for my amazing family, and the time that I will get to spend with them... I'm thankful for the great paying job I have, that is affording me the opportunity to get out of debt, so that I can have lots of extra cash to try and do some good for people, I'm thankful for an amazing church family as well! God has blessed me with all of these things and I very rarely sit down and thank Him for something that I absolutely do not deserve. Roderick, the little boy I sponsor through World Vision, who lives in Uganda... What is he going to be doing on Christmas? Imagine that I have all of these things to be thankful for, which are amazing things... What is he saying? Is he saying that he is greatful for the measly thirty five dollars a month that he gets... You can't even fill your vehicle up for that, and yet it provides 3 square meals a day, medicine, clothing and education for this young man, for an entire month! I'm just at a loss for words right now... I'm ashamed. I read on the prayer requests that Phil Canafax just got riddled with shrapnel the other day, and at the same time saved his buddies arm by performing emergency medical care on him... Why does he do what he does? Why is he going to be pulling shrapnel out of his body for the next few years and especially on Christmas? It's hard to say that it's for love of God and country, because we're a PC nation now and that's not correct. Everyone has a different answer, but I think that you'll find most of the time, the answer is so that "you don't have to" Who else is going to do it? When you're out and about this time of year, frustrated about the idiot drivers and the unfriendly clerks, stop and think about what it could be like. Thank God that there are people out there allowing you the ability to be complaining in that moment, and most of all thank God that you are still around, that you are able to go home to a warm place with a Christmas tree and hug your loved ones!
Merry Christmas everyone!! God Bless!!
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