Merry Christmas!

As time may not be found in the near future to write a Christmas post, I decided to take a break from wrapping gifts and do it now.


However, what to say regarding Christmas in this post has yet to occur to me. Oh well, I'm just going to go with it, and perhaps inspiration will come.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year. The atmosphere of it is fantastic, all cozy and bright and warm and fuzzy and colorful...The adjectives are endless.

Christmas trees aglow, fires crackling in the hearth (Or in our case, the wood stove), packages all wrapped up in green and red paper and tied with a bow, snow-covered trees, hot cocoa with marshmallows, and time to sit and contemplate the mysteries of life. Like how they should spell 'marshmallows' with an E, since everyone pronounces it 'marshmellows' anyway, and mellow is totally the mood you're in when you drink hot cocoa, so it would have a double meaning.

Anyway, this usually would be the time when I'd stop and be like, "But you know all those things are nice, but the real reason for the season is Jesus". Which is totally true. People saying 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas' kind of annoys me. Also, people being all like, "Well, he wasn't even born on December 25th" kind of annoy me as well. I mean, it's not about celebrating his actual birthday, it's celebrating the fact that he was born at all. That he, knowing what his future would bring, came down to earth as a baby, to save us, the sinners. To grow up to be nailed to a cross by the people he came to save. But then, he had VICTORY over the grave! He overcame death itself! And he's coming back again, riding on a white horse. How awesome is that?!

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life"--John 3:16

Merry Christmas.