Commercialized Christmas

Ah Christmas. The most wonderful time of the year. Or is it? I ask every single one my guests at the bar what they are doing for Christmas this year and 85% of them have a less than enthusiastic response. What is is even more upsetting is that last night, I was treated like garbage the entire night at work all because of the people who were beyond cranky from their mall shopping experience. "I want a 50 dollar gift card! Where's my soup? Where's my burger?!" PEOPLE PLEASE I am doing everything I can to make your experience at my job and enjoyable dinner so please, don't treat me like your servant I am simply your server. So why has Christmas become such a nuisance? What happened to the child-like love for the holidays? Why have Americans become Scrooges and Grinches? GIFTS. The need to buy presents causes mass chaos in all department stores with trampling, greed, anger, frustration, and just the complete opposite of what Christmas should be about. In my perfect world we wouldn't get each other gifts and not because we wouldn't want to give to each other but because we would realize that we aren't the ones who need to be given things. I wish we could take the hundreds of dollars we spend on each other and give it to people who actually are in NEED of something. People who need food, clothes, household items.
Christmas should simply be about the CHRIST. I mean after all, that's why we celebrate it isn't it? The day the world received a savior? That's something to be celebrated, praised, worshipped, in awe at! Yet instead of focusing every day of December on the real meaning of Christmas we are too busy stressing ourselves out on what would be the best gift for all the people in our lives who already have everything that they need. SO PLEASE, I beg of you this Christmas Eve, don't buy in to the commercialized Christmas and lose sight of the joy in this season, the wonder, the magic. Look into the best gift that you could EVER receive from the man who came down from Heaven to save us from the constant need to impress and be apart of this world. Treat Christmas like thanksgiving and give thanks to be with your family and friends this Christmas Season!!!

"I celebrate the day that You were born to Die that I could one day PRAY FOR YOU TO SAVE MY LIFE"

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE