Mistletoe Mayhem!

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Mistletoe Mayhem?

I wonder if that first Christmas there was any mistletoe growing wild by the stable where Jesus was born.

Probably not, but today's Christmas season has parties, homes, and offices decorated with Christmas trees, garland, and maybe a chunk-a-hunk-a-burnin-love-mistletoe in a doorway or two. 

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Each year in the Larson home we do hang our very own little plastic mistletoe in a doorway as part of our Christmas decorations though not much kissing goes on.. that I am aware of.

​I don’t know much about Mistletoe except that if you wander under it with someone else you should kiss... RISKY BUSINESS for sure. So without further delay let me share a few 'risky mistletoe moments'  from a Back Pew perspective.

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• Mistletoe should not be used in a Church Christmas Cards from the pastor. just sayin'
• Mistletoe complicates choices for those who are both hungry, and lonely.
• Beware the ol' Mistletoe Hat Move
• Mistletoe border problems continue to be reported between Minnesota and Wisconsin
• Mistletoe.. Kiss under it.. or smoke it

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With these images now implanted in your brains let me conclude the following mistletoe advice shared in the lyrics by Stephen Stills.

And if you can't be with the one you love, honey Love the one you're with!

Hmmm.. These sentiments seem like a 'progressive' paraphrase of Song of Solomon.  Yikes! 

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With regards to mistletoe kiss and love they are NOT to be shared with just willy nilly.

• Stephen Stills advice is from a lonely rock star on the road and probably on drugs which does NOT make him credible, and
• If Solomon wrote about mistletoe in the Song of Solomon.. note, he had 700 wives, and would not use the King as a marriage counselor or expert on proper conduct under mistletoe.

​BUT I DIGRESS!

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Merry Christmas wishes.. and mistletoe kisses?.. from The Back Pew

Jeff