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so here it is less than a week before christmas and i'm not quite ready for it. no its not the shopping, i'm done with that. it's the mood. i'm working on it but i've yet to really spend any time thinking about christmas and what its all about and stuff. you know how every year christmas starts earlier and earlier but somehow goes by faster than ever and with less of the...i guess just the feel of christmas. perhaps we start it earlier every year in hopes that by giving ourselves more time with it we'll fall more into the spirit. i think that maybe we're a bit off if that's our thinking. why? well i think that the real problem is the depth to which we experience the season and what comes along with it. another week or two of skimming the surface with some christmas tunes and shopping is not going to get us any more into any kind of christmas spirit. so here is my challenge to myself. given that i have spent all month working 70 hour weeks and spending little to no time involved in any kind of attempt to experience christmas on a level deeper than the pictures of families and kids sitting by the christmas tree that i take every day i am embarking upon a test. i am going to spend the next few days (hopefully even those which are spent at work) in an attempt to go deeper with this whole christmas thing. how? reading the bible's version of this whole christmas thing, actually making it over to church on sunday and spending some time in community with others seeking to experience the real depth of christmas, and at the same time enjoy the things that have come to be a part of the season (ie: watch a few christmas classics like white christmas which i am enjoying as i type, maybe its a wonderful life or elf too, as well as spending time with the family away from the distractions of our typical lives once i make it home). anyway, i'll let ya know how it goes.

Posted in: on Thursday, December 21, 2006 at at 1:00 AM