STOP AND TAKE A MOMENT

We need to stop and take a moment

to give much respect to

the person who this holiday really belongs to.

  Christ was born on Christmas day.

 If he hadn’t been, where would Old Saint Nick be?

  Saint Nick wouldn’t be at all.

  We need to remember Christ

when all the decorations go up.

  When we open the gifts,

when we eat Christmas dinner.

  Christ is the first part of C-H-R-I-S-T-m-a-s.

  Christ is the reason for the season if it wasn’t so

I would have told you so.

  Cincinnati’s Fountain Square is getting crowded

with every other group’s symbol.

  So this year when you set up the tree,

or open the gifts

I’m going to be one person 

who takes time out to remember

who this holiday was named after.

  You can say what you want

but this holiday belongs to Christ.

  Christ is the reason for the season.

Christ is the reason for the season!

Dec 1997