Christmas Day

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As a child in 1960, I remember precisely the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with enthusiasm. I liked the beautiful floats, celebrities, giant balloons and marching bands, but I knew that at the end of the parade was Santa Claus! This meant the end of the Thanksgiving Day holiday and the start of the Christmas holidays.

Although I Sunday school at our church and I learned about the birth of the Christ-child as a child, I seemed to paygreater attention to the version of Santa Claus. That was because I was always anxious for Christmas morning to arrive so I can see what Santa had brought, I might this year!

Being immature, like all children, the more I focused on what I always say to this day, and not what this day was really to celebrate too much. Probably as young Christians, most of us from the beginning in a similar direction, and grow, never change our attention to what we had, the day really is. Greed andSelfishness is what you get or give a reference point for this day.

The owners of the companies are very interested in this weakness of us, and do their best to monopolize on it. Greed and selfishness of their business to lose the distribution of nickel, or the shop across the street always nickel was his driving force. With these words, and over the years, the beginning of the season before Christmas and previous campaigns has been almost every year. The secular holidayTheme had a firm grip on most of us, and was not ready to let go,!

I noticed that he began in 1970 during the Christmas season roll-out in early November. Then in 1980 was the commercial blitz, with the store display begins just after Halloween show at the end of October. In 1990, the start of activities by pushing even before Christmas, and some screens are now to appear before Halloween.

InBeginning of this century, was also the set of points of secular Christmas holiday, but also begin earlier. Now, the end of September is the beginning of many activities run up to Christmas. Entrepreneurs and managers are pushed to their shareholders and board a red arrow pointing up and up on a PowerPoint table for these people doing their job prove to be demonstrated. For entrepreneurs and CEO, greed deserves more money than the same time, thelast year is their only concern.

With this trend, by 2010 there is likely to see Santa and his sleigh roll-out on the field directly behind the player in his first game at the start of football season. What a thought, the transition from when I was a child, like the Thanksgiving Day Parade Santa, who at the end of the lineup the first game of football season!

A passage in the Bible it says that it is better Luke 18:24-25 (NCV), 'It is very difficult for the rich to giveKingdom of God 'is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle of a tan to a rich person to enter the kingdom of God "for the individual, personal greed and selfishness, what we give or factor disturbance. Luke 12: 15 (NCV) Jesus tells us: "Be careful and protect against all kinds of greed. Life is not measured as one. "

If there are entrepreneurs, CEO, or consumers, there are also Christians and the need to refocus our attention on the realReason for the Christmas party. Our main goal has always been for the birth of Jesus Christ.

Please do not make statements about the wrong way. E ' "ok" for us to receive gifts or gifts of people who are in the course of this celebration, the care of the baby Jesus shows the visit of the Magi in Matthew 2.11 (NCV) "They came to the house where the child was and saw him with his mother, Mary, and she fell down and worshiped him. they opened their gifts and gave himTreasures of gold, frankincense and myrrh. "

We should all try as best as possible in our jobs. We just have to remove our personal greed and selfishness. We can do this by adapting our emphasis on the real reason for this celebration and de-emphasize once again the secular version.

Romans 2:6 (NCV) says, "God reward or punish any person who has done what for this person. Some people who live a long time, doing good, for God's glory, honor, and life , thatno end. God is their life forever. But there are other people selfish. They refuse to follow the truth and follow evil instead. God gives them the punishment and anger. "

The Christmas period show a statistically higher rate of depression and suicide, why? This is mainly because of our greed and selfishness. The businessman who is not up to their expectations and business objectives; The person who is depressed because they do not buy the wonderful gifts they had in mindfor their loved ones, all attributes at these prices too high.

I have personally experienced these feelings of depression and suicide in some of the last Christmas holidays. One year for Christmas gifts I was unemployed and could not afford it, my family and friends even the smallest too. There had to be in such dire financial straits a disastrous season for the holidays for me, with the focus firmly secular holiday of my posters. This was also the yearPersonally, I changed my way of thinking and focus put Christ at the center of the celebration of my Christmas. And with this change of perspective, I experienced the Christmas holiday best I've ever eaten in my life!

From this personal experience, I encourage all Christians to focus time as a center of meaning for this holiday, and experience the Christmas holidays, as was expected. It will be one, will never forget!