I live in a world where Christmas isn't even spelled with Christ in it anymore...that's if they even say Christmas anymore...Sometimes they refer to it as a part of the holiday season...
I was very glad to hear something that lifted my spirits a little. Charlie Brown Christmas was almost a failure. Why would that lift my spirits? Because it was almost a failure because the people in charge thought that it would not survive the ratings because Linus quoted straight from the Bible in one of the harder translations. They said it wouldn't work. And they were wrong.I also have a hard time with Christmas because it is a time when you are always searching for the gift that is equal or better than the gift you recieve. But then when you recieve the gift that is less than the one you bought (and worked hard to make sure it was better) you are sad instead of happy because of the accomplishment. Then you see that more people are taking the season to far with their tackyness and commercialism and you want to tell people that the best you have felt around Christmas was when you were at the Rescue Mission or some other charitable place helping them have a nice warm meal...Christmas is the time to celebrate when Jesus was born.
And maybe some people should remember that the night Jesus was born he was in a manger, lying in swadling clothes, in his mother's arms and listening to the sound of shepherds murmering their surprize at the birth of this person. There were no wisemen, they came much later, and their gifts were symbolic of his eventual death as a sacrifice...
The shepherds were just simple guys working in the fields who had heard the messiah was born. There were no golden gifts or whatever. There was just an overwhelming joy and the smell of farm animals...Try and remember that while celebrating Christmas...it really is a celebration of someone's sacrifice...
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