How Merry Is Your Christmas?
It’s that time of the year again, when Christmas carols fill the air, when bedecked trees of green or white adorn houses, stores and offices, when shoppers busily splurge on gifts and things with their hard-earned bonuses. There’s always something about Christmas that makes everyone more occupied than they are the rest of the year.
And yet, with the economic downturns that the world is experiencing now, I can only wonder if Christmas is as merry as it was the years before. Sometimes, I’d like to think that it is, that it should be. Yet, when I see the difficulties around me, and experience the crunch myself, well, I don’t know if I still sound as positive. Without money, how else can we enjoy the “worldly spirit of the season”? That is, how can we shop and wine and dine?
The little child in me, however, reminds me now that Jesus is still the reason for the season. And in the midst of poverty and lack, the birth of Christ is what we celebrate- not the shopping, not the partying. Jesus was born in a lowly manger, after all, and the whole Christian world has celebrated this birth year after year. That should be enough.
My Christmas is Merry because of this. How about you? How Merry is your Christmas?
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