December 14, 2008 What Would Happen If:

What would happen if:

for Christmas families didn't go on a shopping frenzy to buy expensive or even inexpensive gifts?

for Christmas there were no decorations?

for Christmas there were no TV commercials enticing the best sales to spend and cause debt that takes a year or more to pay?

for Christmas there was no pressure to do any of these things? But instead be together in a beautiful sharing and intimate way.

What if Christmas was like all the other 364 days of the year? Or the other 364 days were like Christmas?

Here's how it looks to me, and I'm feeling this craziness, wildness and sickness with all the enticing commercialism that the world uses to create a false good life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7mpA2L2s3E&feature=related

Don't think I'm crazy, this is really may not be that extreme. I'm really desiring to have an intimate Christmas with family and friends, one that is beautifully simple, one that really is only about Jesus and being with those close to me.

What if this was Christmas?