We were in the GAP store and I needed to try some clothes on. Hope was with me. As I was trying on clothes Hope was playing around and looking at herself in the mirror.

All the sudden she began to sing to the top of her lungs a song she had heard in the car. “Blessed be the name of the Lord! Blessed be the name of the Lord!” She kept repeating that same phrase over and over again as loud as she could sing it.

I was immediately embarrassed wondering what the other people in the dressing room thought of us. I told her to stop she wouldn’t she just kept singing loud with a smile on her face. “Blessed be the name of the Lord!”

I couldn’t help but think of this little incident around this time of year at Christmas when it seems everyone wants to take that precious Name out of everything, even His own birthday.

I have been made to think about what that name really means to me…such happiness and joy…freedom from bondage to sin…. my only hope in this hopeless world…that name Jesus set this captive free. That name means life to me, take it away and you take everything from me! He is what I live for!!!

Why wouldn’t we sing it to the top of our lungs! I am determined not to be ashamed of the Name of my Lord Christ this Christmas. So, maybe Target doesn’t say “Merry Christmas” they need Him the very most in my opinion and it’s our duty to tell them about that blessed Name, as Hope would sing to the top of her little lungs.

Merry Christmas!

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