Its the season to… December 8, 2009

One of our loyal readers...

It’s ALMOST Christmas and people are already going crazy.  I mean the shops have started putting up décor for the festive season a few MONTHS ago… 

This is my question:  Are we trying to hard to keep the roots of Christmas and to keep the mood there or is marketing succeeding in making Christmas more commercial meaning a bigger bonus and a happy, happy new year for them?

I had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day.  We were walking through a very popular mall on our way to the food court and I noticed the beautiful decoration that had been put up.  Being a guy he simply shrugged it off as being a Christmas thing.  He went on to say that Christmas has becoming something that is celebrated by younger kids and as you get older the entire thing looses the magic and it becomes a reason to party and to spend way to much money on clothes that will only be full of stains and probably won’t fit after lunch.

It got me thinking, those of us who are fortunate enough to have had Christmas and know what I meant in the above paragraph will probably agree with my friend and not think twice about this Christmas unless when it comes to what you want.  The thing is that there are people out there that is not that lucky and that would give anything to know what we are talking about. 

I was fortunate enough to have volunteered for several months, at an organisation that helps the homeless and poverty stricken communities.  My eyes were opened to the way that we take things for granted and in some cases overly appreciate certain things when they are completely unnecessary to get by.  How shocked I was to know that there are people that cannot remember what is like to have a sit down meal with a family.

I have to admit that I appreciated our sit down meals at home for a little while, but since I have left the organisation I have kinda fallen back into my spoiled ways. 

I think that if we want to get the feeling of Christmas back, we are gonna have to start seeing things through the eyes of others and remember the reason that God sent his son to us in the first place.  By expecting things to be a certain way we are going against the way that things were meant to be.

Let this Christmas be about some else, if that don’t work… Get a little Captain in you!

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