Tis the Season

I'm just going to come right out and say it....I'm one of those crazed Christmas lovers. I LOVE every single Christmas movie, am obsessed with the Christmas music, and love decking out the house in seasonal decorations. It's getting so bad that my sister has started referring to me as "the creeper elf of the house" because I constantly have Christmas music playing. But this year I've been pondering Christmas and all it has come to be more than ever.... The devil has done SUCH a good job of taking the world away from the true meaning of Christmas.....look around and you see crazed shoppers and creepy santa claus's everywhere.....America has even started to stray from SAYING Merry Christmas because it might offend others.....go to any grocery store or restaraunt and you hear "Happy Holidays!" but no Merry Christmas. This, to me, is a tragedy. Christmas is meant to be a time to celebrate the birth of our Lord, our Savior, our Redeemer- to rejoice in the promise of salvation that came with his birth; but the world has turned it into the celebration of a big ole man dressed in red and all he can bring us Christmas morning. So this Christmas I'm trying to look at Christmas with different eyes- not that all the jazz that comes along with Christmas is bad- I'm just trying to realize in a WAY bigger light this season that it's really all about Him. And I'm hoping that this shifting of my mindset will transfer not only into the holiday season, but into my everyday life. So that HE can become greater, and I can become less.