I know that this is not a direct quote from Our Lord, Jesus Christ but, if you think about it, it's certainly true. Too many of us have forgotten the reason that we celebrate Christmas. Today, it seems as though too many people are caught-up in the hustle and bustle of shopping, waiting in long lines to make purchases that perhaps are really not needed. A worker in a store was killed on the day after Thanksgiving as a mob of shoppers ran over him. He died and no one stopped to help him. This is a tragic situation, to be sure, and the opposite of Christ-like.
My family has all agreed that we will no longer be giving gifts to one another. Materialism is becomming entirely too important to too many people. It is the opposite of the meaning of Christ' life on Earth which was to open the Gates of Heaven to us who he loved so purely and completely.
"The happiest person is not the person with the most but the person who needs the least."
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