Merry Christmas everyone!
I hope you all had as good of a time with friends and family as I have. So far, I have had a great holiday, celebrating the love of God in Jesus with those who I love. I also got to go to midnight mass at the Cathedral downtown. It is a beautiful, stained-glass and domed Catholic church in downtown Sacramento. (my family and I were in town for Christmas eve, and wide awake after the party at my cousin's house, so we thought we would check it out). I have never been to a midnight mass on Christmas eve, but it really was something that gave me a fresh perspective on Christmas, the birth of Christ, and the holiness of God. As soon as Decemeber 25th began at 12:00, we were singing various songs in latin, spanish, german, and english about the birth of our savior. I began to think about why we celebrate Christmas. It is not about the gifts we give each other, but about the gift of Christ that God gave to us before we knew Him. It is really quite incredible for me to think about.
Would Christ have felt welcomed at the Christmas parties we went to this year? They should be celebrations of him, his birth, and what he came to be - the messiah and savior of the world. I'm not sure if he would be all the time, which really bothers me. Honostly, I could do away with the gifts and the commercialism of Christmas if we could all just get back to the reality and holiness of this day we celebrate. Even though Christmas has passed, I am continuing to reflect on these things. Why Christ was born and what it meant to all people for all time.
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Christmas,the most beautiful time of year..although it has passed.there is always time for more celebration....celebrate his birth everyday, and holiness through the way in which we live our everyday lives. =)
so i got a text message today from a friend that said christmas "didn't feel like jesus' birth" this year.
you think jesus' birth has a feeling that goes along with it? have we made this time of year, which was meant to be a celebration of his birth, into nothing more than a happy feeling with all of our commercialism and other ideas of what it should be like?
i don't ever want my idea of what something should be like get in the way of what it actually is.
christmas is a time of year to remember; what does that feel like? it changes every year.
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