How is that "making merry" coming along? You got the tree up? Have you started shopping? My tree is up, the list is made and I have just started shopping. But~ I am not stressing. I may not have my normal "go- all -out decorations" up~ maybe I will finish them and maybe I won't.
However~I plan on enjoying all the sappy~happy Christmas movies with French Vanilla Cappuccino. We are having a stress ~free Christmas if it kills me~ lol.
I hear so many Christians do a lot of complaining about Christmas. So many say it is too commercial~ or too pagan. Not me! I love the music in the stores. I love all the decorations. When I see a Christmas commercials~ it brings back sweet childhood memories. When the commercials started that meant it was the Christmas season once again. I love Christmas. I love buying gifts, baking sugary treats (that I don't need) and decking the halls with all the glitter this girl can find. ( I love me some glitter.)
Maybe we do get too commercial but the reason we buy and wrap gifts is to celebrate the silent testimony to the supreme gift of God's Son ~who gave His life so that we may have eternal life. What a reason to celebrate if there ever was one!
John 3:16
King James Version (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life
We all know that Santa does not really bring us all our wants and wishes and raindeer really don't fly. But maybe if we called attention to the Baby who was born in Bethlehem~ instead of griping about all the myths~ others would see our joy and the true reason for the season.
It is true we need to put Christ back in Christmas but He never left. Listen to the carols being sung over and over again at the mall and the department stores. It is the one time of year that the world sings about our Saviour. Now that is truly a reason to celebrate. I for one want to sing along at the top of my lungs.
How about we decide not to humbug this season but celebrate loud and clear that Christ is no longer a Babe in a manger but came and walked and talked on this earth. Our calendar even celebrates the death of our Saviour and over 500 men and women were witnesses to the fact that He rose again. My Saviour was born and died to take away my sins. This girl is celebrating with all I have in my being the fact that my sin debt has been paid and pain in full.
We all know that Santa does not really bring us all our wants and wishes and raindeer really don't fly. But maybe if we called attention to the Baby who was born in Bethlehem~ instead of griping about all the myths~ others would see our joy and the true reason for the season.
It is true we need to put Christ back in Christmas but He never left. Listen to the carols being sung over and over again at the mall and the department stores. It is the one time of year that the world sings about our Saviour. Now that is truly a reason to celebrate. I for one want to sing along at the top of my lungs.
How about we decide not to humbug this season but celebrate loud and clear that Christ is no longer a Babe in a manger but came and walked and talked on this earth. Our calendar even celebrates the death of our Saviour and over 500 men and women were witnesses to the fact that He rose again. My Saviour was born and died to take away my sins. This girl is celebrating with all I have in my being the fact that my sin debt has been paid and pain in full.
John 1:14
King James Version (KJV)
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild—
God and sinners reconciled.” —Wesley
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