Most everything we use to celebrate the Christmas holiday is taken from something inherently not holy. I have spoken a lot about how funny I think it is that Christians get so upset about the secularization of this holiday when from its conception it wasn't really ours to begin with. I am surprised those who are not Christians are not all up in arms about keeping Christ out of Christmas and putting this holiday back to what it was in the beginning. A mid-winter pagan holiday that celebrated the solstice.What I love is that we have taken what it was and redeemed it... restored a holiness to this holiday.
It really isn't Jesus' birthday, He really wasn't born on December 25th, the Christmas tree isn't sacred, the stockings and gifts are just that, Santa clause is a universally held fairy tale that helps the retail industry. We fight every year to take back from the overt commercialism to a sacred realism, a holy tug of war of sorts.
What is a wonderfully true lesson about this holiday is that redemption is possible for nearly anything that the 'pagan' world celebrates. We CAN take things back, every square inch, and claim it back from the enemy. We need to fight this more often instead of being content in our encampment.
We have taken this holiday...one for us...let's keep going! Next...Halloween, New Years, 4th of July, Memorial day...What would these holidays look like if we re-did , or redeemed them?
Merry Christmas all...May this time of year bring all the happy a good party brings, all the peace contentment offers, all the good will to men that truth engenders and all that victory produces when we have won one more year a Christmas celebration !
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Heidi - Thanks for the good wishes - may you also be blessed as you walk through the coming year.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and struggles, dreams and realities through this blog. I watch for them and enjoy what you write.
Blessings,
~lew
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