Have A Narnia Christmas

I am somewhat deliberately being “funny” with this post. For quick background, I have to confess that my childhood experiences made me a Grinch. Christmas was an ordeal for most part, when I was a kid – and it didn’t have any religious significance to my family, although Christmas day was the only time my mother went to church as long as I remeber (that happened once). But when I was 19, I experienced a profound change in my relationship with religion. I got a testimony or a spiritual witness of the divinity of Jesus, and an understanding of his mission on earth. That gave to me a new idea about Christmas.

Praise to The Man

So Christmas is on its merry way and media reports are all full of worried merchants agonizing about people not spending enough money. I realize that selling (mostly unneeded) junk is how many people earn their living (starting with the kids who work 12-hour shifts 7 days a week, while still starving, in Asian factories) – but let’s look at why Christmas is celebrated by Christians in the first place.