{"id":5282,"date":"2010-12-02T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2010-12-02T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T15:22:05","slug":"email-qa-please-give-me-a-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/email-qa-please-give-me-a-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Q&A: Please Give Me a Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originating from one of my old blog posts about giving Donations as Christmas Presents:
\nhttp:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/making-donations-as-christmas-presents\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I received this email:<\/strong><\/p>\n

i am member of a Shaloom Church in Pakitan. i am founding\u00a0a Christmas Tree But i have no meet a Christamas Tree. Sir Plz Send me a\u00a0Christmas Tree. Before a 25 December . My Pastor is a very upset. For a\u00a0Christmass Tree. My all Planing is panding. i am waiting your’s to gift.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nMy Name is : \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Shahbaz Tabassum
\nAddress: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Shaloom Church, New Shoukat Town, Ghazi Road,
\nLahore-Pakistan.
\nPastore Name: \u00a0 \u00a0*Edited*
\nContact \u00a0No. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*Edited*<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

God Bless You and your family and i wish you good luck in his future life.<\/em><\/p>\n

MY RESPONSE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shahbaz,<\/p>\n

I greet you and your family with Shalom and Sha-na-na. I also wish you and your family good luck – but if you like you can receive the good luck in this life; you do not have to wait until the next one. This choice is up to you.<\/p>\n

As for the Christmas Tree. If I send you a Christmas Tree then you will just have a tree. And I don’t think that’s very much in the Christmas spirit. So instead, I will give you a wonderful Christmas gift by NOT sending you a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

The two Christmas gifts I give you are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The gift of patience for your pastor who is upset about the Christmas tree. With a good sermon he will light the hearts of his congregation more than any Christmas tree.<\/li>\n
  2. For you I give you more time to spend with your family next year. If you are unsuccessful in getting a Christmas tree by trolling the internet for related blog posts – then I hope next year you refrain from doing this and spend that time saved with your family. I think they will appreciate it. I know I will.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    God bless and Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Originating from one of my old blog posts about giving Donations as Christmas Presents: http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/making-donations-as-christmas-presents\/ I received this email: i am member of a Shaloom Church in Pakitan. i am founding\u00a0a Christmas Tree But i have no meet a Christamas Tree. Sir Plz Send me a\u00a0Christmas Tree. Before a 25 December . My Pastor is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1nc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}