Christmas

So the other day I blogged about the insanity behind the supposed offense the word Christmas can bring, but today I’m just going to talk about Christmas itself…or something along those lines.

Turn the television on and you’ll hear those reports about how this is one of the worst holiday shopping seasons for retailers. I don’t really believe that, it’s like they say that just so people will go out and buy more to prove them wrong.

This morning after my family had opened our presents around the Christmas tree, I looked at my gifts and thought how luck…blessed I was. We hear how Christmas shouldn’t be about going into debt, I just heard that in church, but though we hear that we spend big bucks on gifts.

I look at my new Wii games and know there’s quite a bit of cash there, and I think about it being spent on me and I feel bad. But when I take another look at the gifts I also see the love and thought behind them.

But of course we don’t need to show love with gifts purchased. Sometimes the most treasured gifts are those when friends or family spend time together. If Christmas has to be about gifts it doesn’t have to involve money.

Merry Christmas!