There is a magazine cartoon in which two persons who appear to be husband and wife are sitting on their living room sofa staring ahead at the TV screen. The “commercial” in progress depicts an actor dressed up like a doctor, saying, “Feeling tired, headachy, listless, worn out? Then why don’t you turn off the TV and go to bed?”
I’ve got a better idea! Why don’t we start the New Year by turning off the TV, the CD, the VCR, the AM, the FM — anything and everything that distracted us from celebrating the true meaning of Christmas — and go back to Bethlehem?
The supreme tragedy of Christmas is that its real meaning is completely neglected by so many people — including many who identify as “Good, CHurch-Going Christians.”
Did our Christmas Season activities reflect, in any significant way, the true meaning of Christmas, or did it look more like “the annual pagan spree,” as someone has put it?
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