What is Christmas

What is Christmas?

The day I want to point out

And what I am here to report

Is what it’s all about and that on this day,

we’ve all come up short!

Yeah, we get gifts, but they cost money

Take extra shifts

And what’s funny

Is we work more to give less

Just more stress….let’s confess!

Is it really giving when we’re out getting?

Is it really giving when we’re only spending?

Unless it’s coming from the heart

Your pocket is a bad place to start!

Why is there only one day some choose to give and receive

When there is 364 more to show we love and believe

In a world that gives out of heart and not greed

And I know this isn’t everyone, but admit that supporting it effects anyone

That sees you go along with a holiday that’s wrong

How do you influence the world

Without setting the right example

How do we turn them to Christ

Without being a light and emitting a sample?

Christ wasn’t even born today!

It started as a pagan holiday!

So why do we all proclaim this is His birthday?

Yes it’s a tradition

But it’s been commercialized!

So why do we support its mission

If this is something we’ve realized?

I love it though because I see

My family likes to give more than receive;

Something God sees and is pleased!

But please

I insist you resist

The urge to splurge

The want to want

The entire desire to require: a gift in return

To neglect to discern

What this poem brings to light and the lesson to be learned