The Ultimate Game Changer

Have you ever had a brilliant idea and then realized that your brilliant idea was one that you have had before and that you have already blogged about it?   If not, you either aren't a blogger, you aren't as old as me, or you don't have brilliant ideas :-)

I was listening to the radio last night and heard a song and though to myself, "Wow, Christmas was a game changer.  Because of Jesus' birth people can live forever!"  I know, not a novel thought, but it stuck me in a new way.   But this morning when I was looking for a quote I realized that last year I had a blog entry called the same thing.... and it was about Christmas.   Brilliant idea, already had it, already blogged it, been there, done that.  But it's worth repeating.

I'm not a grinch in the truest sense of the word, but I am not one of those people who love Christmas... at least not the parts of it that are commercialized and trivialized and become annoying.   I'm sort of like a post-revelation grinch.... because he said after he saw that without all of the commercialization, Christmas still came.

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? 

It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. 
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.  

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” 

The song that inspired this brilliant concept this year has a chorus that ends "And man shall live forever more, because of Christmas Day.  Think about it.  It is THE ultimate game changer.