Christmas

It is 1:12am and I am up. I been thinking about Christmas and been wanting to write. There is something on my heart. I read today in the Courier Journal that said that Christ needed to be taken out of Christmas. Actually it was a letter to the editor in responce to that article. The writer went on claiming the paper was anti-christian and so forth. Regardless it brought home my message I needed to tell all of you. The world will take Christ out of Christmas, because we have already. See, we teach our children about a jolly fat man named Santa. Last I checked Santa is not in the bible. Yes, I know that Santa Claus is based upon Saint Nicholos. So why do we not tell his story and for get this man that lives at the North Pole with elfs and reindeer? These parts of the story are not part of St. Nicholas. Saint Nicolas was a man who did great things for God. His warmth of giving and helping others needs to be told, but the truth not a man in a red suit that really takes on the role of God. Please don't dimiss this think about it. THink of all the things Santa stand for. This will sound over the top but look at Santa and Satan look at the words. Does this mean anything nope other than Satan wants to be a false God. Santa is too. We give so much now, during this time of year. Why don't we do this through out the year? Why do we buy presents that cost so much? Would it not be better to take that money and help the poor and hungry? We want to use the Magi gifts given to Jesus to justify our tradion, then let us only give three gifts. We have allowed the holiday to become something it should not be and that is bigger than Easter. See yes God sent Jesus and that is great. But the real gift came from Jesus in his acceptance of who he was and taking the sins to the cross. He had a choice. He could have not done it then this holiday would be useless. So when you go about your business today think of this. WWJD? It still applies today as it did then.