Tis The Season

 I want to ask some questions:  how many of you are far too busy on Christmas to really enjoy this time of the season, and how many are discouraged and hate to see Christmas come?  How many of you will go into debt and struggle trying to pay off what you will spend on presents and preparations until the next time Christmas comes around?

For many, this time of year brings back many bad memories and past hurts and we need to show compassion and kindness and love that is more than just talk, which happens far too often.  To me this time of the season radiates hope, good tidings and joy and good will and excitement.

I would be amiss if I didn’t bring this into the foreground and that is this, Christmas is far too commercialized, for many people it is a time to get off work and party and get stoned, and also to make lots of money on.  I think at times we are so preoccupied with the parties and all the preparations and the shopping, that we are involved in, that we lose what the real reason for the season is all about in the first place.  

Most true Christians celebrate this time of year as Jesus Christ’s birthday, which at one time, from my understanding, was a pagan holiday.  Also, from my understanding, December 25 was not the day that Jesus was born, it was in the spring probably around March 21, when things start warming up and new life begins to take place.  When the trees and bushes and flowers and grass begin to come alive.

Well, whether that is true or not we celebrate it on the 25^th of December.  If we are not careful, like I said up above, we will miss the real meaning of Christmas because we get so preoccupied with everything else that is going on around us, the shopping and the preparations that we are involved with.  Jesus is the reason for the season, and we need let our families and friends and neighbors know about it.  I know we hear Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas from people, it seems like people want to take Christ out of Christmas, but if that happens, I see no need to celebrate Christmas at all.  So, let’s keep Christ in Christmas and not let the jolly man, called Santa Claus, plus other things take our minds off the real reason for the season.  

I pray that this has been a blessing and an encouragement to one and all. May all of you have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours with His perfect peace, love and joy and health and happiness and may you all have a very Merry Christmas!!