In preparation for this production Detective George & The Gospel Thieves (written 5yrs ago), God lead me to study and include a controversy topic...Santa Claus. But you know it wasn't until this production that I understood why. I didn't question it then because I always told everybody that I believed in Santa Claus. And I still do. I believe in the spirit of which he stood for. He was a "real person" and loved Christ. Matter of fact, a Bishop in the Christian church.
Legends have created the fairy tale image of flying reindeers, elves, North Pole, etc. but this man had the "Spirit of Giving" especially to the needy and poor. I don't think its wrong to adapt his character. Shouldn't we as Christians or simply as humans have that type of spirit.
What prevents us from believing in something that appears unreal? What prevents us from believing in God's Promises...what He has said, will be? Are they too "fairy tale" for us to grasp and hold on to? Please enlighten me!
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Thank you for your post on Santa Claus.It's true that so often we worry so much about teaching people lies that we forget to rightly divide the word of Truth. It helped my children to understand that sometimes there is a little truth in most things and though it's not for us to believe everything we hear, we should be inspired to search things out for ourselves. It did my sons good to know that there is a real saint whose name was Nicholas and that he loved Jesus and cared for children. It gave them a different outlook on reality vs. fantasy/legend.
Cece its so good to hear from Florida. I'm blessed that the blog is beginning to travel. You know I was talking with two ministers whom I thought would have an more open spiritual mind to who St. Nicholas was as a person but they couldn't get beyond what the legends had made him into. I told them that I couldn't believe that they as ministers couldn't see the spiritual side of what Nicholas stood for...and they looked at me so dumbfoundedly. So I ask the question again...Does God promises appear fantasy? Is that why its hard for some of us to accept them as reality so we just kind of look at them dumbfoundedly?
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