What is Christmas?
Christmas… What is Christmas?
a Santa Claus fanfare?
With reindeer, presents, little elves
and lights strewn everywhere?
Well, these things are great fun
and they’re not at all wrong.
But these surely aren’t the reason
to break forth in Christmas Song.
Then is it wondering, if Dad will get
that electric scooter I adore?
Or writing mile-long lists of things
that if not received, my parents I’ll deplore?
No, of course not! That is “MEmas”,
a disease that people bless.
When December is not far away
then ‘me’ is thought of in excess.
What then is the real Christmas,
if not all these things?
It is a time to praise the Lord,
a time when thankfulness should ring.
A time to pause and wonder at God’s love,
that He sent His only begotten son down here,
to die that our sins might be no more.
A time to marvel, how He holds us dear.
Also a time to give love away,
to bless our friends and try,
to copy our everlasting Lord,
who wisely rules all on high.
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Posted by Anonymous 
10 December 2007 - A true Christmas - living for others