Skye Jethani has a great post on Christmas over at the Out of Ur blog. He identifies two primary obstacles to truly celebrating Christmas as we should: Busyness and materialism. I think most of us will readily admit we suffer from busyness. Materialism, on the other hand, is something no one likes to admit but all of us suffer from to some degree. As I've mentioned on Sundays this month materialism isn't just "wanting more stuff". You can have very few "things" and still be materialistic if your focus is on your "things" or your focus is on all the "things" you don't have. It takes great discipline to avoid both these traps, but when it comes to materialism we have to start at step 1: Admit we have a problem. Skye has some good suggestions on avoiding the traps of busyness and materialism, click on over and see.
May we all truly focus on Christ this Christmas.
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