I stronlgy dislike "cute sayings"...like "Jesus is the reason for the season".

Yes, it's true.  Christmas is about remembering the birth of Jesus.  And that is a good and worthy thing to remember; it's not about gifts, presents, trees and lights.  Christmas is about Jesus.  But, Christmas should be about more then the birth of Christ because His birth was simply one thread in the cloth God was weaving. 

Remember that the purpose of Bethlehem
was to get to Calvary. 

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