| 16 December |
Christmas |
Tis the season to talk about Christmas. But before I continue with this post, I would like to wish you all a early Merry Christmas. And I would also like to say that this post is not ment to offend any religion or any person. I do not want to offend any person out there who does not celebrate Christmas. I hope you all are going to sit down with your families by the fire or have a happy Christmas dinner. Just sit back and enjoy this post and relax. Or grab a cup of coffee or hot chocolate?and sit with your family while we go over Christmas history.
For those of you who are Christians reading this, you know that Christmas is Jesus’s birthday. For those people who aren’t Christians, now you know why we celebrate Christmas. And I’m pretty sure that there is a similar reason for why you celebrate Christmas (or what ever it is that you call it in different countries). If you have ever looked?at the word Christmas, you can see that?it is seperated into the words “Christ” and the?word “mas”.?The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning “Christ’s Mass”. It is derived from the?Middle English?Christemasse and Old English Cristes m?sse. “Cristes” is from Greek Christos and“m?sse”is from Latin missa (missa meaning “the holy mass”). Now that you know what the word Christmas means, let’s take a look at what Christmas is about.
Jesus was born on Christmas day to free us of our sins. We celebrate Easter because Jesus died to save us of our sins. That was what he was born to do for us, and took it upon himself to help all that needed his help. We honor him by naming Christmas day after him. But we don’t just honor Jesus on Christmas, we give thanks. I know that is what Thanksgiving is for, but we can give thanks any day. But what I want to know is, what does Christmas mean to you? I want you to reply to this post and say what Christmas means to you. It could be simple or detailed. If you don’t want to reply, you could contact me on my contact page. I would like to tell you what we also honor Jesus with. We honor him with our laughter ringing around the room. We honor him as being happy and grateful to everything we are provided with. We let him see our happy faces and fell our warm hearts. Let our joy wash over him and bring a smile to his face. This is what we honor Jesus with, this is what makes Christmas important. Before I end this post, I would like to say a few things in the next paragraph.
Can you hear the laughter coming from friends and family ringing around the room? Can you see their rosy cheeks, or smell the love in the air. Taste the happiness ready to burst, when your tongue escapes your mouth? Or feel the warm hands of loved ones. Or do you feel the heat from the fire in your cabin? See your family in the room, hear your child’s laughter as he plays around the room? And for the children reading this, do you see the presents under the tree? Or the ones in your hand. Do you see your siblings laughing and playing? Or your mom and dad in their chairs with love in their eyes? Is this what you see at Christmas time? There’s only one question on my mind, and that is, what do you see at Christmas time? Only you can answer that, only you can answer that my friend.
Information regarding Christmas, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas. Merry Christmas my friends.
