It's been a little hard to adjust to it being the Christmas season this year, we went to Boston right after Thanksgiving in what I suppose is generally the transition time. I've been listening to my Christmas music since I got back and loving it, I got my Christmas books and little decorations out before we left, and now my little college Christmas tree is up in my room, I watched our video of recorded Christmas programs on Saturday, several hours long and shows I've watched since I was a kid; but it now really feels like Christmas after the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional last night, it was wonderful!
Before the devotional I'd been enjoying traditional things of Christmas but wondering if I was enjoying too much commercialism and not enough of the real meaning of Christmas. Watching the Christmas programs on Saturday I watched The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Mickey's Christmas Carol, etc. and it was an interesting mix of commercialism and trying to get the real meaning, or meanings through. This is a wonderful time of year but I think there's a delicate balance to it that we can so easily upset. It's important to remember that, as the Grinch found out, "...Christmas doesn't come from as store...Christmas means a little bit more." or a lot more. Christmas is to remember the birth of Christ and his life, and from that to also try to act more like him, spending time with our loved ones, doing what we can for the less fortunate, and visiting those who are alone or lonely. I want to remember those things this Christmas season. Think of Charlie Brown, he was having a miserable Christmas season, but when Linus told him the real meaning of Christmas, the things that had bothered Charlie Brown before dropped away.
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