A good Christmas reflection...

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Well its Christmas, and I figured I would take a little time off from celebrating my birthday to write a short blog about the holidays. Today's topic is the fat jolly man that people have come to love so much. I wanted to clarify something for the world, good ole Saint Nick and Myself are actually good friends. I have nothing against him, but I do have some issues with the culture that surrounds him this time of year. It seems that people would rather believe in Santa than Me. Just think of all the so called "Christmas" movies made every year. They are mostly filled with this misleading notion that everyone needs to have a little faith in Santa. For some reason they try to perpetuate this myth of Santa to the children. Now I know its just so the kids could have a little fun, but in truth it is damaging to My celebration. Not even Saint Nick would appreciate what has been done with him during the Christmas season. He has been made into a Christmas god. It's funny how people have always wanted to worship anything except the real God. Take a look at the Hebrews right after they were freed from slavery, it didn't take them long to create an inferior golden calf to worship, and today we have done the same thing with Santa. Americans have created an inferior Christmas god, to worship yearly. Its not that Santa represents bad morals and ideas, its just that he is not a good icon for what Christmas should really be about. Think about the songs people sing when it comes to Santa:
"Making a list, Checking it twice
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice"
Since when does being naughty or nice have anything to do with Christmas? If you really look at what my birth is about, you see that the gift of my life doesn't just belong to the people that have been nice all year round, its for the people that have been naughty as well, and really its for them more than anyone else. See I came for the loss, the broken, the hurt… The Naughty; yet we teach our children a very non-Christmas idea. We try to teach them that Christmas is about what you can earn by doing good, but if we perpetuate this lie we are really doing a great disservice to Christmas. My birth was about receiving a gift that you could never earn, no matter how naughty or nice one is. This is the trouble with Santa, he brings an inferior idea of what Christmas should really be about, My Grace. So this Christmas I pray you all will remember the grace I brought to this world several Christmas's ago.
Love JC
P.S. Yes I know that December 25th was most likely not the actual day I was born. The church changed the date of many Christian events to help the process of evangelism to many pagan cultures. The church tried to replace those pagan holidays with Christian ones, and in many ways it worked. People can argue about whether this is a good thing or not, but does it really matter? I am primarily concerned with people being made aware of Me and My story, and if that means that our traditions are simply the product of Christians adapting my story to the pagan culture than so be it.

Well its done!

Happy Christmas to all who read this rather late Christmas edition blog!

i have tried to keep the computer use to a minimum over the Christmas time or i will just lose any type of life i have left!

Christmas was different again this year... i think i will try to keep my own tradition of keeping it different each year... i dont want to fall asleep each year, bowing down to yearly tradition and forgetting what i am really celebrating... the birth of Jesus who came to become the saviour.

So em had my company for Christmas day, well from Christmas eve infact... and we had a quiet one... we did... nothing! which for a couple of youth workers was a difficult task to, when you areon the go somuch its hard to just stop... but maybe thats a disipline we need to bring into our lives more than just once a year.... (thats a whole blog itself)

Well.... the nothing consisted of opening presents... Church... eating... cooking what we ate... looking at what we didnt eat... forcing what we didnt eat to be eaten... TV... music... games... and face packs at 1130pm

a great day all in all!

em read the blog from 'Jesus' from myspace... i will paste it into the next blog... (tis good!)

but i do wonder if i should go back to the myspace land... i just dont know if i care enough to do it... but i do like the chance of more attension from yet another web pages with me on it...

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LISTENING TO- Lily Alen LDN

things change...

I have become to think about my friendships over the past few weeks...

I love all my friends, and value their input in my life.
But howcome the balance sometimes just isnt right?
I have many different groups of friends, i seem to have different worlds with different sets of friends...

The hardest thing is the fact that these groups of people have nothing to do with each other apart from me. I know that the different groups have grown up from different times in my life, different settings and the fact is the people i love are very different at times.

But what happens when i seem to be losing my oldest friends?

I know things change, we all grow up and move on, but what about the casualties of the heart we have as we continue to walk down these paths?
Then things fizzle out and nothing more is said... how can you talk anymore? Am i scared of what i will hear? 'I don't think we are as close as we were'... if i know this what can i do about it?

When you break up with a guy you make it final.. or it will just get worse until you do...
But what about friendships? If we grow out of a relationship when does it end? Please dont get me wrong, i dont want to finish any friendship i have... but when things change what do we do?

How do we move on without bitterness?

Maybe i am thinking too much again

x

LISTENING TO- radio one waffling (still)

Well i didnt do that badly....

So my last post was to plug my seeling of MUSE tickets on ebay...
Which i have sold!
But i didnt make any money!
Sad but true... i broke even... so i have managed to buy MUSE tickets for myself... but no Cheaper than normal price...
Never mind... its the game we play!
X

LISTENING TO- radio one waffle talking

it is ebay time again...

hello to all my wonderful readers... all few of you!
I have to tell the world to bid on ebay once again... this time to fund my MUSE habit...
I am selling 2 seated tickets to see the wonderful band in wembley next summer... it looks like it will be a fabulous gig... so hit the link and bid.. or at least watch...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-Muse-seated-tickets-Sunday17-06-07-Wembley_W0QQitemZ110069346449QQihZ001QQcategoryZ16067QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Unfortunitly i havent gotten the skills for knowing how to make it a nice lovely one word link yet so we just have to look and click on the blah blah blah of this unsightly link!
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LISTENING TO- nothing i got too excited about sellling something muse related!