Keeping Christ in Christmastide

Keeping Christ in Christmastide
By Larry Linville

Gifts are unwrapped, room is a mess
“So let’s clean up this old pigpen!”
And all the family pitches in
to put things in order again.

Put the decorations away
and throw away that dry old tree
then we will run back to the mall
and join in the big shopping spree.

Sadly this happens ev’ry year
by those who were so very loud
who complained over and over
with the “keep Christ in Christmas” crowd.

Christmas begins on Christmas Day
but they are ready to move on
and the twelve days of Christmas
are here but our Jesus is gone.

This is not the fault of the PC
or other people we have blamed.
It is because we have ignored
the Yule season so unashamed.

Just the once I come to beg you
to keep the Christ is Christmastide.
Take the spirit of the Advent
and let it in your heart reside.

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