Tell me if you have heard this before?
“They are putting stuff out for Christmas earlier every year!”
“The commercialization of Christmas is stealing the true meaning of Christmas!”
“Satan is trying to distract us from the meaning of Christmas!”
Can I just ask everyone to relax? Christians can be the most insecure human beings on the planet. This coming from a man that lived in Canada…and THEY are insecure! You know how many devoted followers of Christ will keep the focus on Jesus this Christmas…ALL OF THEM.
You know how many devoted followers of Christ kept the focus on Jesus last Christmas …ALL OF THEM!
The day of Christmas is the day we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus. My family reads the Christmas story in Luke. We sing Happy Birthday. We thank God for sending his son. That is what WE do.
The Christmas season however, is not sacred…and trying to make it that way will only lead to frustration. We expect a secular world to treat an entire month sacred. Tis not realistic. I love the SEASON of Christmas. There is nothing sacred about Frosty the Snowman, Santa, Elf, The Grinch, Peppermint Mocha Coffee or for that matter Christmas trees and lights. But I like them. I like to play. I like the fun around it…but it isn’t sacred.
Choose not to play if you don’t want to. Preach against Black Friday (retailers won’t like you) if you want. Don’t participate in giving gifts. That is fine. (However, some of you that blog about the commercialization of Christmas love to share on Dec 26th your new Apple product) Don’t participate in the decorations or the egg nog. That is fine. Just don’t hyper spiritualize an entire season and mess it up for the rest of us.
Relax, drink the good Egg Nog and enjoy the season.
Merry Christmas!
Sean Rheaume 
I love this Sean. I love the lights and decorations and snowman and all the Christmas movies and I love giving. At the beginning of the season I got ribbed for decorating early but thank God I don’t do it for other people I do it because I like it and my hubby doesn’t care what I do when it comes to decorating. We keep Jesus close during this time of the year but I do love all the wonderful things that go along with this time of the year.