The title of my message is How to Have a Joyful Christmas and Christmas is here. I mean all around this are the reminders the pressure is on. We're hoping we'll get the right thing for a loved one or

will receive the thing that we're hoping to get this Christmas I heard about a

little boy that decided to write God and tell him what he wanted for Christmas.

So he said, dear God, I've been a good boy for two months.

But then the little guy thought, well, I am writing to God and God knows everything he'll know I

haven't been good for two months so he crossed out to put one month I've been

good for one month they said I haven't been good for one month he crossed that out and said I've been good for two weeks.

And he thought no I haven't even been good for two weeks. He made a one week. Even that was too much.

And so he had a thought he walked over to the little nativity set.

There's a figure of Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus.

He grabbed the figure of Mary, went back to his letter, set the figure down, and wrote,

Dear God, if you ever want to see your mother alive again,

so that's one way to go at these things.

Now, you go to the malls, malls crazy aren't they and parking spaces are so

hard to find have you ever gone stocking for a parking space do you know what I'm

talking about so someone's coming out of the mall, they have their bags, they're going to their car, so you're looking

for their space and oh there they are.

So you put your signal on and they take a year to put the bags away and you're waiting and people are

backing up behind you people are starting to honk but you found this space you're

not going to let it go and then the person puts the bags in the trunk and walks away.

This cannot happen.

Listen, if you're going to your parking space in a mall and you're not going to leave,

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