by: Abi Rivera
What are you Christmas? Where did you come from? Are you the hot coacoa that I drink with the company of a fireplace? Are you the cheesy music that invades my ears singing about Santa and how he owns reindeers? Are you the snow we all wait so patiently to fall in December? Or are you the gifts that we anxiously open on the 25th of December?
The traditional Christmas is all of the above. But what we do not realize is that somewhere down the line someone got carried away and overrated Christmas. Ruined it by the excessiveness of gifts and exaggerating Santa. They stressed this character named Santa and replaced Jesus with a person that doesn’t exist. Now Santa has been passed along from generation to generation making kids believe that there’s a supernatural being that delivers gifts to people once a year. It’s funny because people want kids to believe that there’s Santa rather than people believing in a real supernatural being who resides in the heavens; leading us to celebrate a false god rather than the birth of Jesus Christ, our savior.
Christmas is Jesus! We celebrate him and remember him. The gift, the snow, the warm fuzzy feelings we get with our family in December is just extra. Let us not forget why we celebrate it in the first place. Let us give thanks to God that we are able to make December fun by giving gifts to see people smile. Cause a smile is also a gift that God snuck in there for us to enjoy. So give joy to the Lord that he gave a reason to celebrate!
This time of the year is only wonderful to me because God has blessed me with the opportunity to spend time with my family and see family that I haven’t seen in a while. Usually we gather around the dinner table or living room and we share stories and laugh or we watch old home videos. It brings me so much joy to be reminded of how much I love my family. A few years back in Colorado we took one of my aunts, Jessie, skiing. We were all having a great time and I’d like to think that I’m a great skier so I was doing my thing and showing off (knee slapper) and I was waiting on Pito, my brother, and Jessie. First, need I say that at this point Pito was beginning to get the hang of skiing and Second, my aunt has only been once like a thousand years before this time ^_^. So now everyone is at the top of the mountain and we were going to race down. Jessie takes off first, very confident and such, and she took off to fast and freaked herself out. All my family and I saw was my aunt flying down before us and were like “dang she’s good.” Very few seconds later she turns into a snow ball, rolling down the mountain and she ate it so hard. At this point we are laughing so hard, and I mean my abs hurt and I was in tears! So we went after her and her skies have fallen off her feet and were nowhere to be found. We asked her “what happened” and she replied, “I didn’t know how to pie-out (laughing hard).” Later the ski patrol had to take her off the mountain. So that leaves just me and Pito, and what should have been 5minutes going down the mountain was 30minutes because every 2 minutes Pito would fall on his face and believe me it was the most humorous time going down the mountain (but it wasn’t funny to him, but seeing him frustrated made it that much more hilarious). After we meet everyone at the bottom of the mount. we went back up with my dad and he was trying to show off and jump over a small hill, turns out the hill was nothing but a pile of powder-snow. Haha he ate it so hard and lost a ski. It was such a great time seeing everyone fall, need I say that I hadn’t fell once ^_^. I’m a beast, jk. This is one of those things we remember and reminisce about every winter, among countless other funny stories we have as a family.
These stories we were blessed to share is what makes Christmas, Christmas. So sit around a fire and share stories, share smiles and laughter. Share the love of Christ because that makes him happy and that in turns makes Christmas worth it. Play games with friends and family, give food to those who can’t really afford it this time of year. Don’t set your mind on what mum and dad got you for Christmas, rather be excited to share Jesus as a gift and give to others.
The traditional Christmas is all of the above. But what we do not realize is that somewhere down the line someone got carried away and overrated Christmas. Ruined it by the excessiveness of gifts and exaggerating Santa. They stressed this character named Santa and replaced Jesus with a person that doesn’t exist. Now Santa has been passed along from generation to generation making kids believe that there’s a supernatural being that delivers gifts to people once a year. It’s funny because people want kids to believe that there’s Santa rather than people believing in a real supernatural being who resides in the heavens; leading us to celebrate a false god rather than the birth of Jesus Christ, our savior.
Christmas is Jesus! We celebrate him and remember him. The gift, the snow, the warm fuzzy feelings we get with our family in December is just extra. Let us not forget why we celebrate it in the first place. Let us give thanks to God that we are able to make December fun by giving gifts to see people smile. Cause a smile is also a gift that God snuck in there for us to enjoy. So give joy to the Lord that he gave a reason to celebrate!
This time of the year is only wonderful to me because God has blessed me with the opportunity to spend time with my family and see family that I haven’t seen in a while. Usually we gather around the dinner table or living room and we share stories and laugh or we watch old home videos. It brings me so much joy to be reminded of how much I love my family. A few years back in Colorado we took one of my aunts, Jessie, skiing. We were all having a great time and I’d like to think that I’m a great skier so I was doing my thing and showing off (knee slapper) and I was waiting on Pito, my brother, and Jessie. First, need I say that at this point Pito was beginning to get the hang of skiing and Second, my aunt has only been once like a thousand years before this time ^_^. So now everyone is at the top of the mountain and we were going to race down. Jessie takes off first, very confident and such, and she took off to fast and freaked herself out. All my family and I saw was my aunt flying down before us and were like “dang she’s good.” Very few seconds later she turns into a snow ball, rolling down the mountain and she ate it so hard. At this point we are laughing so hard, and I mean my abs hurt and I was in tears! So we went after her and her skies have fallen off her feet and were nowhere to be found. We asked her “what happened” and she replied, “I didn’t know how to pie-out (laughing hard).” Later the ski patrol had to take her off the mountain. So that leaves just me and Pito, and what should have been 5minutes going down the mountain was 30minutes because every 2 minutes Pito would fall on his face and believe me it was the most humorous time going down the mountain (but it wasn’t funny to him, but seeing him frustrated made it that much more hilarious). After we meet everyone at the bottom of the mount. we went back up with my dad and he was trying to show off and jump over a small hill, turns out the hill was nothing but a pile of powder-snow. Haha he ate it so hard and lost a ski. It was such a great time seeing everyone fall, need I say that I hadn’t fell once ^_^. I’m a beast, jk. This is one of those things we remember and reminisce about every winter, among countless other funny stories we have as a family.
These stories we were blessed to share is what makes Christmas, Christmas. So sit around a fire and share stories, share smiles and laughter. Share the love of Christ because that makes him happy and that in turns makes Christmas worth it. Play games with friends and family, give food to those who can’t really afford it this time of year. Don’t set your mind on what mum and dad got you for Christmas, rather be excited to share Jesus as a gift and give to others.
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