SYL.Astrology
Added: 11/23/2006 |
Welcome to Christmas in purgatoryAh yes, Christmas time yet again. Welcome to a Holiday designed to make you feel inadequate, to make you feel like you haven't done or given enough. Christmas time is Heaven for some, and Hell for others, which strikes me as maddeningly funny since it is the birthday of the Christ, since it is the most Christian of all Holidays. Every year it gets more difficult for me.
Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my, voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication:
If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word.
My soul waits for the Lord more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord,
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption;
And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.
But though this eases my depression, it does not relinquish the pain or free me from all guilt. Christmas has devolved into a free for all cash grab. It is a marketers dream and a human beings nightmare. I understand the spirit of giving, I understand the spirit and drive behind Santa Clause and the reindeer and the presents, but these days Christmas can drive you to the point of bankruptcy. Christmas can be a downright depressing grey cold time of year. White Christmas should often be called grey Christmas or blue Christmas or depressing Christmas. Sadly the message got lost along the way, or as they say, the baby got tossed out with the bathwater and in this case the bathwater froze because it's the dead of winter. Don't you see, Christmas isn't about Tickle Me Elmo dolls or Playstation 3's or CD's or whatever it is you have to have to keep up with the Jones' and now that the universe is small because of the internet you have to keep up with the Wong's and the Schmidt's and the Peltier's too. Christmas is about the father, the sun and the Holy Ghost. Christmas is about sacrifice so the giving part makes perfect sense, but the rest is all bogus. These days we pray and pay to Wal-Mart and credit cards and interest rates and commercialism. Gone are the days of simple stuffed stockings and family gatherings, now you forget about the manger and the nativity scene and the three wise men and pick right up with the elves and the reindeer and the snowmen and all of the things that have nothing to do with the birth of the Christ, the life of the Christ, or the death of the Christ. For many, too many, Christmas is the loneliest time of year, the time of year that they feel most alienated as they remember the love of those that they've lost, or feel the pain of those they never had. It would be an easier pill to swallow if they understood the true meaning of the word Christmas and the message of the Christ.
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