Christmas

The Christmas season seems to start earlier and earlier each year. In some stores, Black Friday, the ultimate materialism holiday in which some people sacrifice sleep, self-respect and sometimes the blood of those in the way of a sale, starts on Thanksgiving. When did it become okay to trample an elderly store worker for the perfect and cheap Christmas gift?

My favorite Christmas songs are the religious ones. There are a few cute ones I like and some that are about peace that I like. But I've found that more and more of the newer ones just say that Christmas is wonderful over and over and over again without saying why. Also, of the old religious ones, I've had trouble trying to find recordings of a soloist I like singing the full song. Often they leave out the most sacred verses. It's sad that even the music is getting more secular.

Christmas magic is Christ. Christmas miracles occur because people make more of an effort to be Christ-like around Christmas. If we take away Christ, all we have is one really long Black Friday. And we can take away Christ from December 25th. If that happens, I'll celebrate Christ's birth in April, when He really was born. Because it's not "the most wonderful time of the year" because of the snow, Santa, gifts, and bells, but because of love. And love is not limited to a "time of the year".