It's true that Christmas is a special celebration. It is a usual family gathering, embellished with a sumptuous meal and an avalanche of gifts (which in a large proportion used to distract and to collect dust) lying under a tree full of colorful lights and decorations. It is the perfect opportunity to revisit those we love remote 51 weeks per year, the oldest, as babies. It's the perfect time designated where a majority of Quebecers do their annual visit to the small church. A church with which they maintain a strictly traditional link (Ti-Jesus in the manger with the ox and the ass, come to bring peace on earth, Gory! Glory! Hallelujah! That's about where it stops ...). All this, of course, in a warm and festive, safe, and often alcoholic wish seasoned and saucy jokes stupid in the extreme.
Yes it is true that Christmas is a very special celebration. That's a party where several social pressure can become almost unbearable. When the bank account is empty and credit cards are "loadées" the cap, it only remains to write his name on a list to expect to receive a basket of hope or maybe some gifts that will not choose yourself. It is a time of the year when you feel so miserable to be poor and unable to offer a laptop or an X Box to his children, the sham's Eve December 24 meeting could degenerate into shouting and insults (especially if mom and dad had the foresight to freeze their sentences with the bottle of rum). The time has therefore tailored to convince himself that has nothing to waxing or other of the birth of ti-Jesus in the manger and his hope for humanity. It was like that last year, why would it change next year?
Absolutely, Christmas is wonderful. Across the world, millions of believers, persecuted or free, rich or poor, emphasize with joy the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, without necessarily giving or receiving anything. One whose Jewish prophets of the Old Testament had announced the arrival of hundreds of years in advance. The Messiah, the Lamb of God, pure and undefiled, who took upon Himself the divine punishment for the sins of all mankind. It's the perfect time for every believer to question deeply what would be his current existence, what would be his forever, without this undeserved gift that God gave to anyone willing to receive ... Yes, it's a time when a year ends, with its trials and its painful moments of intense joy that have transformed our personality and strengthened our values.
Without condemn anyone, because having myself part of the groups described in paragraphs one and two, I prefer by far to date, the group's third paragraph. I am proud and grateful to be a Christian ...
Merry Christmas everyone!
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