The Reason for the Season

YAY!!!..25 days to Christmas and counting down. Cant wait, its one of my favourite times of the year.... or it used to be. 

When I was younger, Christmas was such a big deal for my family and I, we went all out, the big tree, the large, awfully bright decorations, the cooking, the "Christmas dresses" (that was my favourite part as a child), the hampers, and best of all, my whole family being together for at-least a week. It was something to look forward to, and then on Christmas day we'd all get dressed and go to church no matter what day of the week it was.

It was always beautiful, it was Jesus's birthday. 

As a child I always knew about Santa, who didn't? but he was never a big part of my Christmas, I loved watching movies about him and cartoons about him but that was about it, my Christmas was always about baby Jesus. Somehow I thought that was how the rest of the world saw Christmas, I was wrong. 

As I got older I began to see how commercialised Christmas had gotten, I say "gotten" because I refused to believe that it was always like that. I started to see that a large part of the world saw Christmas as a time to receive and give gifts and just that. Don't get me wrong that's one of my favourite parts of Christmas too but it goes beyond that. 

Its not about what you get or what you buy, infact its so sad that this is the period when people incur debts the most, i couldn't believe it, buying things you cant afford and going into the new year broke is not what Christmas is about, atleast not to me.

I see Christmas as a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, I'm not even comfortable with cards that say "merry Xmas" , cause they've just put a large 'X' over the most important part of the word. 

I guess what I'm trying to say is however we decide to celebrate Christmas, let's try not to forget the real reason for the season.

Hope you have a lovely Christmas.