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First and foremost:
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
Our family just finished looting the tree, and I'm in a good mood; I got practically everything I wanted. However...
Isn't it ironic that one of the holiest times of the year can be the most sinful? We all know how much Christmas has become twisted by materialism, commercialism and Coca-Cola Santa Clauses. And therein, of course, lies the aforementioned sin. No matter how hard we try, it is difficult to concentrate on the true meaning of Christmas instead of the loot under the tree. But we must try.
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For hundreds of thousands of years, the human race slogged across the Earth. Wars were fought. Civilizations rose out of the debris, then collapsed into it again. Monarchs and commoners alike lived, loved, worked and played in a somewhat barbaric and dangerous world. Rome, Egypt, Babylon...all rose into the glorious limelight, but no matter how powerful or permanent they seemed, they were doomed to collapse, as were the people who populated them. Earth was dark. Not pitch black, but gray. Storm clouds always gathered on the horizon.
Then, one night 2005 years ago, something happened. A star broke through the darkness, and underneath it, a baby was sleeping. And to this single, poor, even somewhat wretched baby, kings and commoners alike came and bowed.
Funny, isn't it, that the birth of a child was enough to haul Earth out of the gray fog it had been living in for so long. But it was enough.
And that's what Christmas is really about.
Just to remind you.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
Our family just finished looting the tree, and I'm in a good mood; I got practically everything I wanted. However...
Isn't it ironic that one of the holiest times of the year can be the most sinful? We all know how much Christmas has become twisted by materialism, commercialism and Coca-Cola Santa Clauses. And therein, of course, lies the aforementioned sin. No matter how hard we try, it is difficult to concentrate on the true meaning of Christmas instead of the loot under the tree. But we must try.
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For hundreds of thousands of years, the human race slogged across the Earth. Wars were fought. Civilizations rose out of the debris, then collapsed into it again. Monarchs and commoners alike lived, loved, worked and played in a somewhat barbaric and dangerous world. Rome, Egypt, Babylon...all rose into the glorious limelight, but no matter how powerful or permanent they seemed, they were doomed to collapse, as were the people who populated them. Earth was dark. Not pitch black, but gray. Storm clouds always gathered on the horizon.
Then, one night 2005 years ago, something happened. A star broke through the darkness, and underneath it, a baby was sleeping. And to this single, poor, even somewhat wretched baby, kings and commoners alike came and bowed.
Funny, isn't it, that the birth of a child was enough to haul Earth out of the gray fog it had been living in for so long. But it was enough.
And that's what Christmas is really about.
Just to remind you.
posted by James at
10:00 AM
