Some Ranting and Raving
I sit here in front of my computer shivering, my fingers freezing as I type this up...I'm doing some research for one of my practice logs for GeekU, at the moment, before I head to work. GeekU is going fairly well - After almost a month of not posting anything for my PL's I finally got my third one posted, and only had one error! How about that...
Currently Listening to ~ Already Over - Red
Christmas is getting nearer and nearer - only 10 days left. There is something that bothers me about that tho...And I'm sure it's been complained about many times before, but I'm going to complain about it again.
My problem with is not with Christmas, by any means. No, my problem is with what people make Christmas into. I think back to Black Friday and the worker who was trampled to death in Wal-Mart as he tried to open the doors. Or the man who shot two people over a toy. That is my problem with Christmas. People fighting and killing to get what they want, and not caring about what anyone else might want.
Wake up people! Three persons are dead, dead! because of greed. While greed may seem harmless, look at the family and friends of those three dead men. Could you imagine having to tell your kids that Daddy got killed at Wal-Mart this morning? Or that Daddy was killed while trying to buy you a Christmas present?
Christmas changed from being a time of joy at Christ's birth to a time of greed, jealousy. From a time of love and giving to a time of hate and getting exactly what one wants.
It's been said before, and I'll say it again. Christmas isn't about getting! It's about giving! It's about following God's example when he gave us His son Christ and giving others gifts, and not caring about what you get!
We wonder why America is in the state it's in today. It's because parents didn't disciplined their children, and now their children don't know how to discipline their own children. It's because the Church is more concerned with getting more people in the doors then with discipling the people they already have.
I can only hope that someone will read this and be affected by it. I'm really struck by a verse on the song Learn to Breathe by Thousand Foot Krutch - "I wanna take you, wanna shake you, wanna make you feel like I do. Wanna take you, wanna breake you, wanna make you know what it's like. I won't fight you, I'm not like you, wanna make you see what I see. I won't fight you, I'm not like you, wanna make feel like I feel..."
I hope and pray that some day America will wake up and realize where they're headed. A long dark path away from God and hope. That could start to be changed, however, if people would just start taking the right attitude about Christmas.
Hope I didn't get too off topic here... :-P
My problem with is not with Christmas, by any means. No, my problem is with what people make Christmas into. I think back to Black Friday and the worker who was trampled to death in Wal-Mart as he tried to open the doors. Or the man who shot two people over a toy. That is my problem with Christmas. People fighting and killing to get what they want, and not caring about what anyone else might want.
Wake up people! Three persons are dead, dead! because of greed. While greed may seem harmless, look at the family and friends of those three dead men. Could you imagine having to tell your kids that Daddy got killed at Wal-Mart this morning? Or that Daddy was killed while trying to buy you a Christmas present?
Christmas changed from being a time of joy at Christ's birth to a time of greed, jealousy. From a time of love and giving to a time of hate and getting exactly what one wants.
It's been said before, and I'll say it again. Christmas isn't about getting! It's about giving! It's about following God's example when he gave us His son Christ and giving others gifts, and not caring about what you get!
We wonder why America is in the state it's in today. It's because parents didn't disciplined their children, and now their children don't know how to discipline their own children. It's because the Church is more concerned with getting more people in the doors then with discipling the people they already have.
I can only hope that someone will read this and be affected by it. I'm really struck by a verse on the song Learn to Breathe by Thousand Foot Krutch - "I wanna take you, wanna shake you, wanna make you feel like I do. Wanna take you, wanna breake you, wanna make you know what it's like. I won't fight you, I'm not like you, wanna make you see what I see. I won't fight you, I'm not like you, wanna make feel like I feel..."
I hope and pray that some day America will wake up and realize where they're headed. A long dark path away from God and hope. That could start to be changed, however, if people would just start taking the right attitude about Christmas.
Hope I didn't get too off topic here... :-P
posted by Josiah Twitchell at
8:01 AM
2 Comments:
Preach it!! :)
Reading that gave me the same feeling as watching mel gibson scream: "FREEEDOM!!!!" in Braveheart.
I'm gonna agree with you. In Jesus name, I hope people will realize that we are missing out on a lot of really awesome relationships because of our self-centeredness.
Haha...Glad someone else agrees with me :)
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