Christmas...the most wonderful time of the year. It really is. Colder weather, but not too cold. Each neighborhood in each town with lights strung all around. Parties, good food, good company. Family, friends. Jesus. I love Christmas and everything that it entails. And because I love Jesus, it has special meaning to me as a Christian. It's time when we celebrate the Lord's birth. So, it's probably not a surprise that I take major issue with what this society has done to Christmas...the way they've commercialized it. The way they have shortened Christmas to Xmas...taking Christ right out of it. I could go on and on about how sad this new way of celebrating Christ's birth makes me and I could get angry at the fact that there are millions people out there celebrating Christmas who don't even believe in Jesus or understand the reasons why we do what we do on Christmas. They don't understand why we give each other presents, or have a tree, or put up lights. But yet they still do it, just because everyone else does. Not realizing that those traditions are done because Jesus was real, and he was born so that he could die, for them.
And just like that....after all the work and preparation, dinners and drinks, it's over. And just like that...it's all over and everyone forgets, if they even knew in the first place. Christmas is something that we should keep in our hearts all year long. It's not just an event, it's a celebration of something that changed the world, that saved us.
