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Merry Christmas

I realize that these days not everyone says, “Merry Christmas!” There are those who believe in God, but are not Christians, that do not use this expression and there are those who do not believe in any God. But I digress.

We just got back from a cruise where we met a wonderful couple, Ken and Pat, from Liverpool. They were retired, as were most on this cruise. Ken had worked in some sort of government position, and had also done a bit of youth ministering in the past. He and I disagreed on the optimal length of a sermon, but otherwise we were basically on the same path. (He even liked Donald Trump – more specifically he liked Mr. Trump because of his recent stand on Jerusalem being the capital of Israel . . . but I digress.)                                                Ken had an interesting story about a atheist female coworker, Melissa, and a past November office birthday celebration that the office threw or her. Years back on a Friday Ken and a few of his fellow office mates stayed late to decorate in order to surprise Melissa for her birthday on Monday morning. When she came in to the office on Monday, she was very surprised and asked who had put up all the decorations. Ken answered her by saying that he had just left the decorations on his desk on Friday evening, and, wallah, on Monday morning spontaneously, and without anyone guiding the process, the decorations were all in place – more specifically the ribbons had come out of the package and hung themselves up, the random individual letters had arranged themselves to spell out H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y and then they somehow magically ended up on the office wall.
The birthday girl responded, “Ken, you know that’s impossible! Only a fool would believe that these decorations could have spontaneously formed themselves into such a beautiful display. Someone had to have planned, organized, and finally put everything in its place for this party. Get real!”
Ken then responded, probably with a twinkle in his eye, “Are you sure, Melissa? It seems to me that the likelihood that these decorations have occurred spontaneously without an organizer is about the same as the likelihood that all of the beauty you see out of this window – more specifically, the mountains, the trees, and the clouds in the sky – has occurred spontaneously. Happy Birthday, Melissa!”
About one month later and every year since, Ken receives a card from Melissa that says, “Thanks, Merry Christmas!”

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