Being a Christian and Christmas coming brings to us many questions. My family loves and always looks forward to Christmas. We love the festivities, the music, the food, the trees, glamour, lights, giving gifts, receiving them is nice too, but we really enjoy the giving so much more. Our favorite Christmas activity is packing and delivering food baskets and toys to the families going through tough times during the holidays. Our second favorite thing is creating gifts and tasty goodies to give to those we care about. There is nothing greater than a homemade gift from your heart. We don't really get into the commercialism, Santa clause ect. How ever we do enjoy the traditional movies. Our question is, how to we keep the focus where it should be and not on these made up stories. Also, is it wrong to enjoy all these things as a Christian? How do we keep the fun in Christmas and leave out the things that do not honor God? Is it wrong to enjoy these things about Christmas?
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To all the Nay Sayers out there, I send a hearty BAH, HUMBUG to you all. Christmas is a day picked by man to honor the fact that a savior was born. The day is irrelevant, thr fact is, it was done, and continues to be done. As for gifts at Christmas, I agree that the commercialism has gotten well out of hand, but to give someone a gift out of love and kindness is just the thing that Christ did when he walked on earth. Unless, of course, you don't consider giving someone their sight, or healing their bodies, or even bringing someone back from the dead a gift. I give gifts for many reasons, Christmas being one of them. I gave my wife a set of diamonds earrings 2 weeks ago. WHY? Just because I love her! The day I give these gifts doesn't change the reason they are given. Christmas was intended to be a festive time of worship in which to "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord", and what is more joyful than the noise of children and adults laughing from happiness. I, personally have read my bible cover to cover 5 times so far, and each time I find new revalations in the word of God, but to date, I have yet to find anywhere that it is paganism tp worship Christ in any form, including celebrating the fact he was born to save us all from our own sinful ways. If you enjoy giving, then by all means give. If you have ungrateful people who refuse the gifts on Christmas, the give them for something else. At least the kids will know you love them even if the parents are being dumb and self-centered. edit: BTW, what I got for the earrings was just as good. I got a hug thay nearly cracked a rib, and a very wet shoulder. Then I got another wet shoulder for the poem I presented to her that I wrote for the occassion of being in love with her. Again, to those who want to find fault in love and gifts from the heart....Bah, Humbug!
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