celebration
November 2008 
If you could design a holiday, what would it be?
Posted on Dec 14th, 2007
by 
spacegirl92
spacegirl92
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 14, 2007:
Actually, I already have designed a holiday. It's called "Keep Your Jesus Day!" This year was it's first year in creation.
This holiday started with my motto and to an extent mantra is, "Keep Your Jesus!" That basically means practice Biblical principles even when you really don't want to. I really can't remember how I came about using that phrase.
Anyway, last school year there was a famous incident in which I went off on this guy named Matt because he had accidentally hit Noah's glasses and messed up a part of them, and Noah was quite angry, but was trying to refrain from blowing up by avoiding Matt. Well, Matt didn't get this obvious message and kept trying to bother poor Noah, and finally I just got tired of it, went up to Matt and very bluntly and angrily told him to be quiet because Noah was trying to keep his Jesus by ignoring him.
Ever since that incident, I became known at my school for saying, "Keep Your Jesus," and other people around school started saying it too. It was our ultimate saying.
Eventually one day, I decided for some random reason that I wanted to create a holiday called Keep Your Jesus Day because even though we're supposed to keep our Jesus everyday, it'd be nice to have one specific day where our main goal is to make it easier for everyone to keep their Jesus with constant little reminders.
So on March 7(I chose that date because March being the third month connects with the Godhead having three persons and because 7 is God's number of completion), I told all my friends at school that it was Keep Your Jesus Day. So using notebook paper we made all these mini-posters that said "HAPPY KEEP YOUR JESUS DAY!" with little designs on them and hung them all over the school.
Our English teacher was busy(she's also the school administrator) so we had a substitute and all we did was read literature. So once we were done, in honor of Keep Your Jesus Day, my friend Danni chose some scriptures which I read in my "preacher voice." Then we sang songs from our school hymn books.
When our English teacher did come in(right before Bible class started) we all started cheering, "HAPPY KEEP YOUR JESUS DAY!" and clapping. It was seriously one of the most amazing days of my life.
Come next March 7, I invite you to celebrate this most amazing of holidays wherever you are!
This holiday started with my motto and to an extent mantra is, "Keep Your Jesus!" That basically means practice Biblical principles even when you really don't want to. I really can't remember how I came about using that phrase.
Anyway, last school year there was a famous incident in which I went off on this guy named Matt because he had accidentally hit Noah's glasses and messed up a part of them, and Noah was quite angry, but was trying to refrain from blowing up by avoiding Matt. Well, Matt didn't get this obvious message and kept trying to bother poor Noah, and finally I just got tired of it, went up to Matt and very bluntly and angrily told him to be quiet because Noah was trying to keep his Jesus by ignoring him.
Ever since that incident, I became known at my school for saying, "Keep Your Jesus," and other people around school started saying it too. It was our ultimate saying.
Eventually one day, I decided for some random reason that I wanted to create a holiday called Keep Your Jesus Day because even though we're supposed to keep our Jesus everyday, it'd be nice to have one specific day where our main goal is to make it easier for everyone to keep their Jesus with constant little reminders.
So on March 7(I chose that date because March being the third month connects with the Godhead having three persons and because 7 is God's number of completion), I told all my friends at school that it was Keep Your Jesus Day. So using notebook paper we made all these mini-posters that said "HAPPY KEEP YOUR JESUS DAY!" with little designs on them and hung them all over the school.
Our English teacher was busy(she's also the school administrator) so we had a substitute and all we did was read literature. So once we were done, in honor of Keep Your Jesus Day, my friend Danni chose some scriptures which I read in my "preacher voice." Then we sang songs from our school hymn books.
When our English teacher did come in(right before Bible class started) we all started cheering, "HAPPY KEEP YOUR JESUS DAY!" and clapping. It was seriously one of the most amazing days of my life.
Come next March 7, I invite you to celebrate this most amazing of holidays wherever you are!
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