Merry Christmas, and I mean Merry Christmas. If you are one of those pissed off fools who like to put up a tree and buy presents for your family and maybe even go to church for your once a year attendance, but then insist on saying “Happy Holidays” then get a clue. You are being taken by the commercialized crap and you deserve to over pay for all the loot you plan on giving away in what you think is generosity. If you are wearing the politically correct hat this Christmas season and you feel better to say “Happy Holidays” then my biggest Christmas wish for you is to grow a spine and either ignore Christmas because that is not really what you are celebrating, or learn the truth and spread the real Christmas cheer!
Christmas is about celebrating the birth of our saviour, Lord Jesus Christ. Does anyone out there remember that quaint little Nativity story? You know, the one with the mother giving birth to a boy in a manger because there was no room at the Inn? Then the three wise-men came bringing gold, frankincense, and myhrr. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… anyway, the point is, how many people who purport themselves to be celebrating Christmas are just celebrating gluttony and materialism? What are we teaching our children? And yes, I would rather have my children believe in what you think is just a story than have nothing to believe in when times are hard.
You can have your decorated trees, your stockings hung with care and whatever else you’d like to claim as all part of the holidays, but the most important aspect is probably being forgotten. Stop this season and think hard about what you are doing every day. Think of the kind of person you are and how you interact with other people. Are you enriching their lives or just your own? Christmas has a deeper meaning, but it takes a little extra effort to find it. So to you I say Merry Christmas.
