Take Christ out of Christmas.

Christmas has passed for another year. On Sunday I went to Church and our Pastor preached a Sermon his wife wrote. It was hard for him you could see, but he wanted to remind us again this year that indeed Christmas is only beginning not ending.

He said "Take Christ out of Christmas", a very bold statement if taken as written here. However what he means is take the Birth and put it in our everyday lives. Don’t just celebrate an infants birth and forget about it, but take that baby Jesus and place him in everything we do everyday.

At Christmas we all see the folks who only come once or twice a year. Sometimes we can begrudge those folks as they come in sit down take up the pews and we never see them again. However, we need to celebrate that they still hold something. We do indeed see them even if it is once or twice a year.

On the other hand how often do we greet the folks who are there everyday. How often do we reach out to the faces we see each day outside of the Church and even inside?

These are some of the meaning in "Take Christ out of Christmas". It can be hard to keep Christ in our lives each and everyday and in everything we do. We let the world consume us and sometimes we only thing of Christ when in Church and on special occasions.

This Sermon was a reminder that we put God first before all else less we forget why we are here.

Take Christ out of Christmas and put him in our lives first!