Is anyone out there tired of the commercialization of our Christian holidays? Thanksgiving has been overshadowed by Black Friday which has now been expanded to make Thanksgiving Day Black Thursday. Christmas shopping now begins before Halloween which almost rivals Christmas in its celebration which makes the year end holiday season almost two months long. Where will it all end? Has anyone noticed, or is it just me? Does this bother you? With all these black days past and just twenty seven shopping days left before Christmas, my wallet is now in the red. Let me be the first to say, Happy Easter Everybody.
I want to pass a quote along to you, which I think is very significant.
Return the Cross to Golgotha
By George MacLeod
“I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church.
I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles: But on a garbage heap; at a crossroad of politics so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
And at the kind of place where cynics talk smut and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.
Because that is where he died and that is what he died about. And that is where Christ’s men ought to be and what Church people ought to be about.”
Hi Jimmie -
ReplyDeleteI feel you on this piece. In fact, in 1998, I wrote a letter that was published about the decline of the true meaning of CHRISTmas
in the hearts of so many. I may post that letter on my blog later this month.
Last year, the Lord led me to write "CHRISTmas" with "CHRIST" being in all caps and "mas" being in lower case. I have written it that way ever since.
You made some very valid points here and there are others that share our sentiments about what has transpired with CHRISTmas and other holidays.
Thank you, Jimmie, for this quite meaningful post.