Holiday Fever

My new nickname is scrooge. Ba Humbug. Yes, this Christmas season I am finding it difficult to muster up the Holiday Cheer. It's not that I am not getting the things I wanted but that I AM getting the things I want. Simplicity seems so desirable currently - looking around and seeing how much we all have yet how we don't take care of it because something newer and better will come along and will soon replace it. The Christmas Rituals are empty, no longer satisfying. The big feast, the opening of gifts. What's the meaning and purpose behind it? It's not all bad I realize but there is a greater and deeper meaning to this Holiday that many Christians often kept on the back burner. Christmas is more then the celebration of Christ's birth but the start of God's plan to bring the elect to Him, for us to have closeness - relationship. So that we can be saved from Hell an eternity of seperation. So in all honesty it's not the holiday itself that I dislike - it's what it has become and what it has been for hundreds of years.