What is Christmas anyway?

To some, it is a season of peace, a season of joy, a season of hope, a season of sharing, a season of forgiving and the list goes go. Yet to some, it is just merely a season of buying gifts and receiving gifts. Moreover, Christmas has become so commercialised that people nowadays do not really understand why the whole world is celebrating Christmas.

Santa Claus, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeers, snow flakes, pine trees, red-coloured socks and the like are slowly replacing the manger, the baby Jesus and the meaning of Christmas itself. This is what Christmas is all about to those non-believers.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my readers! I am truly experiencing the joy and peace of this Christmas 2007. Carolling is has just ended, the best time of the year for family is coming up, and more importantly the hope of waiting for the birth of the King is so profoundly joyful.

I love the song - Oh Holy Night a lot. The reason I like this song very much is that it tells us the meaning of Christmas. This is the best carol! Allow me to put the words from the lyric into paragraphs.

The stars will be shining brightly on a holy night, this will be the night of the dear Saviour’s birth. The world has long laid in sin and error pining until He appeared and the soul shall feel its worth.

A thrill of hope the weary world shall rejoice, for yonder shall break into a new and glorious morn. Let us be led by the light of a star so sweetly gleaming above just as the three wise men from the Orient land were led to the place where Jesus was born.

In all our trials He was born to be our friend who simply knows our needs and our weaknesses. Truly has He taught us to love one another. His law is love and his gospel is peace. Let us fill this Christmas with sweet hymns of joy and grateful chorus. Merry Christmas!