Happy Holidays?
“Happy holidays”, the young girl said as she bagged my purchases. I smiled and thanked her for her well wishes. The next customer, not so appreciative of this greeting, made a snide remark about the fact that she didn’t say “merry Christmas”. Perhaps he was trying to make a point of keeping Christ in Christmas, but what he really did was annoy two people. I didn’t walk away from that store having had a spiritual awakening because of his words. In fact, I was really more irritated than I was when I entered the busy store and realized just how long the check out lines were in the first place. If I see someone this time of year, I will wish them happy holidays to encompass all that we celebrate this time of year. We start with Thanksgiving, then Christmas and end the season with Groundhog Day on February 2 nd . (that’s my favorite holiday) So because of this, if I see you between Thanksgiving and Groundhog day, I will undoubtedly wish you a happy holiday season. I suppos