Within the circle of Evangelical Christians exists a perennial tension between "too much Christmas chaos" and "putting Christ back into it." These believers feel that the season of celebrating the birth of the Messiah would be better served by somehow relating all holiday trappings to something spiritual, thus minimizing anything that would "take one's eyes off of the real reason for the season."I would posit the argument that without the secular trappings, the spiritual celebration would all but cease to exist. Why, you ask? Let me tell you.
Remove the tree, Santa Claus, the gifts, the decorations, the Christmas cards, the warm fuzzy feelings, the big family feasts and replace them with a sermon on Christ's birth. Remove the Ho-Ho, everything will soon become Ho-Hum for most folks.
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For me, celebrating Christmas is a time for me to reflect and be thankful. We have a tree, because I love to decorate for the season. It's a time when folks will actually accept gifts.
My family has such a mixture of faiths...We have Mormon (stepson), Catholic (stepson), Messianic Christian (brother), Lutheran (many extended family members), Southern Baptist (Paul), Episcopal (my cousins), Methodist (my parents), Non Denominational (Liv and James), No longer active (Joel), and Do Not Agree (Ian). Christmas for us is a time that everyone will agree to get together. We had 12 adults and 2 children here yesterday. :)
Lindy
Agree completely with your observations. Fortunately if you dig around at the department stores you can still find an angel or a nativity.
In the picture is the unwrapped gift a Twinkie or what?
lol
gg
No, that's a gold velvet ring box, sis.
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