Tis The Season

Tis the season. Tis the season of green and red to fill the homes, tis the season of the tones Silver Bells and Deck the Halls to echo down the sidewalks of the malls, and tis the season of giving. Joan Winmill Brown decribes the sensation of Christmas as "Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given, when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
Has the meaning of Christmas went from the celebrating the birth of Jesus, Incaration, to who can buy the biggiest, most expensive gifts. Santa's naughty list has more than doubled, but yet those children still get the toy of the season. The monotary base of Christmas is sickening, where have the days of giving back for our many blessings.
As I sat down to write this blog I put in the movie "Its A Wonderful Life." George Bailey the main character, whom the movie circles around is face with hardships that test his faith and human dignity. At a yough age he saves his brother's life from drowning in a frozen lake. While he was saving his brother he acquired a flu, and lost the hearing out of his left ear. As George's life progresses his life that he has spent years building begins to crumble. His reaction is asking he had never been born. Its at this point he meets his second class guarding angel, who grants him his wish. Through the vision of never being born he realize the truth meaning of Christmas. Thats its not the fact that he is in debt eight thousand dollars, but rather he has a family that loves him and a community that is willing to do anything to see him succeed.
Im not sure the meaning of Christmas can ever be converted back to a true celebration of the birth of Jesus but maybe parents will begin to inform their children of the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance, a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.