There was a man who wrote a song for Christmas. It pulled on every heartstring and was the tackiest kind of sentimental manipulation. It was interestingly popular and played Christmas after Christmas since the year 2000. Fascinatingly, this song is now openly reviled among the Christian circles with which I have contact. Popular for a time, but the threads finally wore bare and people seemly got tired of this type of emotional abuse. Why bring this up when considering advent?
I find it interesting that there will always be someone trying to manipulate and marketing a feeling. The Christmas ads and the like, even our church services and Christian media can play on an emotion that we are "supposed to be" feeling at this time of year. Yet, as with the song Christmas Shoes, they aren't pointing us towards the lasting wholeness and fullness of Christ, but just a little "feelings rollercoaster" that can give us a warm fuzzy, or a sad fuzzy.
This season I hope we can all, more than ever before, separate the peripheral things (that we may rightly enjoy!) from the One Whom we celebrate at this wonderful time of year.
I agree. It's fluff. The real stuff happened in a stable, the birth of our King. I don't want to get grinchy, but I don't buy the fake emotional ploys either. LOVE you! It was so nice to talk to you this morning, dear one.
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