Occasionally I hate Christmas

I realized tonight why I am such a Grinch during Christmas.

At first I thought it was because something was wrong with me and I was just a negative nelly….but I took a closer look at why I hated “the Holiday season”

…and this is what I came up with.

Christmas SUCKS!

Simply because we make it suck.

We have these insane expectations of what it’s supposed to be like, and we tell everyone insane things like…

“Keep the Christ in Christmas!”

“Know the reason for the season!”

“Don’t write X-mas! You’re taking Christ out of the word!!”

“Make sure you go to church on Christmas day!”

“Are you ready for Christmas??”

“Got all your shopping done??”

UGH! Don’t even make tear each of those statements and silly questions apart one by one because it’s a waste of time.

I just want to know….

Why do we not treat everyday like Christmas?

These questions are for my Christian Brothers and Sisters…

…Why aren’t you buying gifts for your family and friends everyday?

Why aren’t you giving to charities year around?

Why are you not inviting friends to church every day?

Why is the spirit of Christmas only alive before Thanksgiving?

We claim the spirit of God, the reason for the season, and his life during the holiday season, but what about the rest of the year??

Does Happy Holidays really hurt your feelings that bad that you feel the need to answer with Merry Christmas? 

Must we rage against the crowds to get the cheapest “gifts” we can find, on the day that is supposed to bring life?

The point I am trying to make is I am a Grinch during Christmas because Christmas isn’t a season.

It’s not special time of year.

It’s not a time for peace on earth, or joy to all men.

It’s a time that we have decided is more convenient to keep during a few months, because if were to treat each other the whole year around like this it just won’t make sense….right?

Why do you buy presents?

Why do you decorate?

Why do you hang out with your family?

Why do we eat ungodly amounts of food?

There is no purpose.

The only purpose is Jesus.

But Jesus isn’t the reason for the season.

He is the only reason.

And we have somehow managed to condense his whole purpose down to the argument  “Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas.”

I need you all to know.

I LOVE Gifts.

I LOVE food.

I LOVE my family!

I LOVE decorating.

I LOVE Christmas!

But I love Jesus.

And I love that when Jesus was here, he loved everyone,

including the Pharisees 

including all the people we(the church) didn’t.

I love that God has called us to live life with a greater purpose.

God wants us to live like we are loved, and the people we are around are also loved, including the people we are scared of, including the people who we hate.

But not just during Christmas, (which might I add, was never a holiday observed by Jesus)

EVERYDAY.

We obsess over whether or not we are sinning, and it’s good to live a pure, holy life, but we forget that Jesus LIVED.

He was alive.

He also wants us to live.

Leave the crap behind us and live.

Because even after Jesus died…

He lived AGAIN!

Christmas is everyday, because everyday we have the choice to live.

So Happy Holidays my friends. May you live your life to the fullest.

May you see every moment as an opportunity to make life great.

May your life be Christmas all year around,

and may the joy of snow, and opening presents never wear off with age.

May friends and family always be near, and able to lend a listening ear.

May you never be hungry and may your food always be healthy.

May you see your self the way Jesus does, alive, complete, beautiful, and joyfully full of starry eyed life.

Be wonderfully blessed my friends.