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A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit
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"The first Christmas was a simple one. So simple that it had all the makings of a first-class disaster. It's a miracle it turned out well at all. In fact, that's the whole point. It really was, and remains, a miracle--the greatest miracle of all time. And it really was simple."
-Mike Huckabee
Christmas has become synonymous with shopping, overindulging, competition, and stress. But according to Mike Huckabee (who was a pastor before getting into politics), that was never God's intention. Going back to the Nativity, Christmas is supposed to be about simple things: faith, love, family, and hope. The hard part, in today's crazy world, is remembering that those simple things are the most precious of all.
Now Huckabee recounts twelve Christmas memories--often funny, sometimes deeply moving--that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his years as a young husband and father to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate. These true stories will help you smile, take a deep breath, and maybe slow down your own holiday treadmill. For instance:
As kids, Mike and his sister would sneak open their gifts before Christmas, play with them, then rewrap them so their parents wouldn't notice. The plan worked great for several years until one Christmas morning when young Mike unwrapped a brand-new football...that was covered in mud. That led to a powerful lesson about patience.
In 1966, like millions of preteens, Mike was obsessed with the Beatles. He dug in his heels, telling his parents that if they wouldn't buy him a guitar for Christmas, he didn't want anything at all. He was selfish, stubborn, and obnoxious, with no idea what it would take for working-class parents to find an extra $99. It took many years for him to understand the sacrifice they made for that life-changing gift--or how it connected to the Lord's own sacrifice.
Only a year after Mike and his wife, Janet, had gotten married, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the shocking age of twenty. That Christmas of 1975 was the most terrifying and upsetting they would ever know, as they wondered if they would ever get to share another one. But in retrospect, it's a Christmas they will treasure forever.
If you're looking for a little clarity, sanity, and inspiration at this insane time of year, you're sure to enjoy A Simple Christmas.
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I'm still hoping Huckabee will run for President again. I think he's got the perfect attitude to be President. He's calm and collected. Takes everything slowly but surely and has an old fashioned kind of wisdom about him.
__________________Lucas McCain the Rifleman: A man doesn't run from a fight, Mark...but that doesn't mean you should go running *to* one, either.
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| Posted: 20 Nov 2009 02:24 |
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So you can look past him being a Mormon then and accept a Mormon running our country? Are Mormons 'real' Christians now? When did that happen?
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| Posted: 23 Nov 2009 23:47 |
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Pak that's the other guy. The guy from Massachusetts.
Huckabee is the one from Arkansas with his own show on Fox that used to be a Baptist minister.
__________________Lucas McCain the Rifleman: A man doesn't run from a fight, Mark...but that doesn't mean you should go running *to* one, either.
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| Posted: 24 Nov 2009 12:56 |
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Mitt Romney. I lost my scorecard for a moment. Pardon. You could still answer that question if you'd be kind enough though. Would you vote for a Mormon or a Catholic(while we're on the subject)?
__________________But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles
And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles
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| Posted: 24 Nov 2009 15:47 |
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Yeah, I would if I believed that the way they would govern was in line with my conservative values. Most definitely. Jimmy Carter was a Baptist if I'm not mistaken and I wouldn't vote for him for anything unless he was running against Obama or maybe Bill Clinton.
__________________Lucas McCain the Rifleman: A man doesn't run from a fight, Mark...but that doesn't mean you should go running *to* one, either.
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Pak,
I think the transition for a number of groups into acceptable americans has to do (as it always does) with political expedience.
As such, just as the Irish eventually became white, so to did Catholics and Mormons become Christians.
There is of course distrust among many of both groups (just as I'm sure you'll find a few who find the acceptance of the Irish into the brotherhood of whiteness troubleing) but by and large, to get your numbers up, you embrace the diversity of multicultural america and decide that, just as the Irish were white enough, so to are Catholics and Mormon's Christian enough.
By the way, I don't say this in specific refernce to Tim, I'm sure that if he was conservative enough he'd vote for an Atheist or a Muslim (there actually are a large number of conservatives in both groups who grate at being lumped in with the Liberals all the time). But more about the transition in political movements as a whole.
Romney is christian enough to get the support of osme of the christian conservative wing of the Republican Party, largely because he is conservative enough. That he didn't get it all had less to do with his religion and much more to do with his greyness on the abortion and gay marriage issues which drive the Christian Conservative Movement.
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| Posted: 24 Nov 2009 22:07 |
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That group got convinced to follow McCain, so it doesn't surprise me much with what plays they'll back at this point. I was actually just curious about what Tim's answer would be. 
__________________But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles
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| Posted: 25 Nov 2009 18:02 |
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I wonder if McCain got nominated by Democrats voting in the republican primary sometimes.
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| Posted: 25 Nov 2009 19:44 |
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I still hold to the theory that they played on his particular brand of patriotism to 'take one for the team' and suffer the anticipated loss that Bush had left in his wake.
__________________But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles
And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles
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