Merry Christmas!
For those of you who celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a wonderful day. Also a wonderful beginning of Hannukah to my Jewish friends, and a belated Happy Yule to my pagan friends.
That said, the "holiday season" is way too crowded. One shouldn't be able to say "Merry Chrismakwanzayulennukah," but yet, there it is.
For me, Christmas isn't a religious holiday. That might surprise a few of you, considering I am very much Christian. I just feel like Christmas is a redressed Yule. But that's just me; I certainly don't expect anyone else to give it up, of course. My religious holidays - all of them that I actively celebrate - come in a few months from now. And, oddly enough, half the shows on TV seemed to confuse the one holiday with the other: I lost track of how many shows were talking about the Crucifixion today. Someone forgot to tell the TV people that Christmas is supposed to be the birth holiday, not the death one. Silly TV people. Christmas, to me, is more about getting together with family. I'm not much of a family person, as most of you know, but it is nice to see people getting together at least a couple times a year. The reunion in the late summer [or early fall, as I think it's been lately], Thanksgiving I suppose, and Christmas. Not too many times that your family drives you nuts, but enough to keep touch with them. That's what Christmas is, for me. But those of you who find religious meaning to this holiday, beyond simple family gatherings and gift exchanging, I truly wish you Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart.
I don't normally do quotes, but I think I'll take a page from animehimeko's book just this once. I saw on my Gmail a quote from C.S. Lewis, and wanted to see what else they had for him. Right at the top was one I enjoyed very much:
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."