"Tis the season to be jolly..."
I love the Christmas season! This year I am particularly excited. I have been looking forward to Christmas for 2 main reasons.
1. Meric would be home from deployment.
2. We are going home to spend the holidays with family.
It has been almost 2 years since I have been home and I am really excited to see family and friends again. I am so excited I broke out the Christmas music at Halloween. (No worries I celebrated Halloween too.)
Now that it is actually the Christmas season, I have had a few thoughts about different things I have seen or heard. I have seen several postings and pictures on facebook saying things like "Keep Christ in Christmas" or "It is Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays" and things like that.
With the world the way it is Christmas break has become winter break and the work Christmas party has become a holiday party. You hear more and more happy holidays and less merry Christmas for fear of offending someone. But seriously why would someone saying "Merry Christmas" offend you? I would not be offended in the least if someone said "Happy Hanukkah" to me.
That being said why should I expect someone to accept my "Merry Christmas" if I am not willing to accept their "Happy Holiday"? Christmas is a holiday after all. And why should I be offended if someone doesn't "keep Christ in Christmas"? Is there any religion that believes Christ was actually born on Christmas? Besides a lot of Christmas traditions were adapted from pagan traditions. (I am not saying Christmas is a pagan holiday but look up the origins of Christmas sometime.)
Christmas should be a time of giving not judging. It should be a time when we are a little more tolerant of our fellow man. A time to unite in love and not focus on our differences. I am not going to stop believing what I believe because it might offend someone and I won't be offended if you don't believe the same as me.
So whether you say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" read Luke 2 or T'was the Night before Christmas, I hope that you enjoy this time of year. And I wish you the Merriest of Christmases!
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