Christmas is Stupid!!
Call me scrooge, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, or your favorite Christmas villain of all time. I don't care. Christmas just gets in the way most of the time anyway. I have things to do, messages to preach, and money I would rather spend on myself (at least I would get what I wanted that way). bah humbug!!!
What is it with Christmas? Why did I see Christmas lights up before Halloween this year? I can't even have thanksgiving (a truly great holiday) without it being ruined by Christmas music and images of Santa in lights. Going to Target or Walmart only makes things worse with their mass marketing of a holiday that doesn't even resemble the real Christmas story.
I am no longer safe!! I must hibernate until New Years!!
Maybe this seems a little over the top, but why do we have to sing the same songs every year. Isn't there any new Christmas songs we can do? If someone sings Joy to the World one more time I might fall into a great big depression.
Let's be real, Christmas isn't about Jesus anymore, it is about companies mass marketing to kids so they can bug there parents about the latest and greatest toy until mommy and daddy spend the kids college fund in order to get it for them (that makes a lot of sense, "my kid isn't very educated, but she had great toys growing up!!"). If Christmas were about Jesus there wouldn't be all this pressure to buy, buy, buy!!!!!!
I have had enough, I am boycotting (when my wife and kids aren't around) Christmas this year. I am not decorating (until my 7 year old tells me to). I am definitely not going to watch any Christmas movies (really, I won't do that, they can watch without me. Ok, maybe one of the Tim Allen movies because they are sort of funny.) I guess that means I am going to have to stay away from every store on the face of the planet and stop listening to the radio, but I think I can do that (thank BP for pay at the pump).
OK, I need to go drink some coffee before I loose it (I am not putting candy canes or some kind of Christmas spice in it either!!!!!!!!)
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posted by John Byrne @ 11:16 AM
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What a great idea - candy canes in my coffee! Well, I don't see any candy canes here yet so a peppermint will have to do. Perhaps you should commiserate with my co-worker who right this very moment is counting herself fortunate that I could not figure out how to turn on a 365 Christmas radio station. I haven't put any decorations up yet, but once I do they will stay up 'til mid-January - I figure I should take them down then so the kids have time to get excited again before next Thanksgiving. And I'm so excited that my local Christian station is playing ALL CHRISTMAS ALREADY instead of waiting until the last 2 weeks like usual.
I'm sorry for you, I really am. But I'm sure you'll find plenty of company who agree.
Christmas-Happy in Colorado
My wife, a lady from our church, and myself all read this together and died laughing.
All we really have to say is this,
"JOY TO THE WORLD THE LORD HAS COME,
LET EARTH RECIEVE HER KING......"
:)
There is an alternative, silly boy. You can have a Christmas that IS all about Jesus. This may sound strange to a cutting-edge guy like you, but for just about 20 Centuries, Christians all over have celebrated something we like to call "Advent" that totally reorients all of life for a whole month around the nativity of our Lord and Savior.
Seriously, I come from as low-church a background as you can get. When I finally went to a church that celebrated Advent, my whole December turned around. I highly recommend it as a cure for the "Cultural Christmas" blues.
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