I think that the holidays have started. On our street the lights started going up two days ago. I heard on the news that several got hurt shopping on black Friday. There was a laptop computer on sale at walmart that was a hot ticket item. I also heard that Target has their employees saying happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. I think their statement was that they felt a responsibility for their costumer's diversity.
I just wonder if you should replace Merry Christmas with Happy Holidays. I mean it seems like this holiday would not exist if it was not for a particular person's birthday. Anyway, I really just wonder if I can survive the Christmas season. Steve and I have been getting a little down lately. I think this seminary thing is the problem. I am not sure if it is okay to be this negative on a blog, but oh well.
It could just be the holidays making us blue. Christmas brings a lot of expectations with the gift giving thing. Sometimes, I wish we could just outlaw it and say it is against the law to give gifts. I wonder what Christmas would be like as celebration where gifts were not even a part of it. What if you could sit down to a meal, sing songs, play games, or read to your guests. I don't think it could be done because the whole evening would be awkward. I suppose that I am looking for an authentic Christmas where it doesn't matter what you gave or what you got. Is that silly?
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Chistmas can be so stressful! One things that helps,
You can make or bake your gifts. personally, I'd rather have gifts from the heart. Tim's extended family is so big and they all exchange gifts. We can't afford to buy everybody something, so we often make or bake. I'm with you Christmas has got a bit out of control. I would much rather sing than shop!
Hey Wendy, I agree. I hate doing the gift thing becuase it's expected, expensive and extemely empty most of the time (oh-oh - get steve to read this - i used like 4 e words!). I like getting stuff for people because i want to and it's unsually not during the Christmas time when i like to do it. And why do we give gifts on Christmas (who said Jesus was born in December anyway?) - are we attempting to equate each other with Jesus just because the wise men gave Him gifts, we give each other gifts to say "hey you're up there with Jesus?". Anyway, I'm not sure why we do it, but I don;t care - i made my family a bit upset a couple of year's ago when i told them i wanted to stop buying everyone gifts and they could stop buying them for us. They were offended. You know, I'm going to stop here - i just realized this would be a great blog post...hahahahaha
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