– Susan Sontag
I've been thinking about this concept more and more as Christmas approaches.
Christmas has become SO commercialized. The television wants to convince us all that we need things that are bigger and better and faster and prettier and more useful.
We don't.
I'm baking cinnamon sticky buns for everyone for Christmas. They're all getting a small, less than $10, single item, and a package of homemade, cinnamon sticky buns. Merry Christmas.
It's not a contest to see how much money you can spend, or a scale of how much you're loved. It's a holiday about family and love and togetherness.
We're even making homemade cards this year.
Even though I don't agree with the Christian community who insist that Jesus was born December 25th, I do still believe with all my heart that, Christ is the reason for the season.
Be like Christ for Christmas. Open, loving, forgiving, allowing, happy, and conscious.
The rest is constructed by ego to assuage ego. Besides, it's not called Ego-mas or Satan-mas.... although how funny is it that Santa visits and brings with him all the garbage of ego?
That seems like a Spiritual lesson in itself.
Christmas is about Christ. The Christ in you. And we all go out and donate to Gifts for Kids, and the Salvation Army, and food banks, and homeless shelters. We all talk about love and family and we bake warm goodies to share. We drag a living tree into our homes and decorate it beautifully to celebrate the triumph of life over death.
But all "Hell" breaks loose every time we think about the money. What we have to buy for whom and how much it's going to cost us. And then the real ego fest begins on Christmas morning after "Satan Mac Ego-Demon" has come in the night and filled our lives with enough garbage that we forget the true magick of the season.
Not that I'm dissing getting new stuff, cause stuff is cool. We're in this world of form to LOVE it. Love your new stuff and SWIM in the gratitude of it. Appreciate everything old and everything new and LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
But don't forget the magick.
PS. America is the only country that goes completely broke and in debt to buy bigger and better for Christmas. Other countries worldwide are still into the giving of a couple gifts in celebration of the season. We're the only ones made out to be failures if we don't spend a fortune on junk we don't need. And we're the ones that made up that idea. Nuttin like kicking your OWN self. What are we thinking?
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