Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, with cash registers ringing and children singing the “I want this, that and this for Christmas” cheer. Yes, it’s the most expensive time of the year. For some it’s the most dreadful time of the year. What has happened to the most wonderful time of the year?
Christmas is supposed to be about Christ, but now it has been replaced with buying our children half the store. Most of them are not even aware of why we are celebrating Christmas, Christ’s birthday, in the first place.
If we as parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents or friends care more about buying out the store than teaching children what they are celebrating, shame on us.
How commercial Christmas has become. Our children have two birthdays every year. They have inherited Christ’s birthday for their own without remorse, thanks to each of us parents.
We spend our time shopping, waking up before daybreak to buy our children so many gifts that it takes months and sometimes years to pay for them. We take prayer, the 10 Commandments and anything else related to Christ, God, the church and religion out of our schools, courts and our children’s hearts, yet we buy out the stores around Christmas time.
I don’t mean to sound like the grinch or Scrooge, but how American, how atheist have we become and teaching our children to follow in our footsteps.
How about we teach them first the real meaning of Christmas and second we teach them it’s not about them, it’s about spreading good cheer, reaching out to the needy, feeding the hungry.
If each family would give just $10 to the poor or teach our children to give to the needy now, this would be the most wonderful time of the year for everyone.
