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Lisa in Katy said:
Christmas has been hard for the last several years now. In 1998, my parents got divorced after 40 years of marriage. Mom lives near us now so we celebrate Christmas with her, but it's not the same. We try to squeeze Dad and his new wife, who still live in my hometown, in the middle somewhere. I miss when we went to my parents' house, spent a few nights, did the Christmas light tour, went to church on Christmas Eve, my dad read the Christmas story from Luke, we opened gifts, and everyone went to bed to await Santa. Mom filled our stockings with candy and a toothbrush, even after I had children of my own.

I also hate that I'm a teacher and have been made to feel like I'm doing something wrong when I wish students "Merry Christmas". I still do it because they really can't do anything to me as long as I'm not teaching Christianity, but it's still the feeling!

my marriage breakup came at Christmas and it's never been quite the same holiday for me, either. Nor for my children. How sad. Blessins for you, my dear.

I was at a school program last week where great granddaughter's chorus presented Christmas songs. The one where the line is 'don we now our gay apparel', instead of gay they inserted 'don we now our bride's apparel'. Ugh. They were not allowed to use the original word. That's sad, too.
 
"Christmas" - Not "Xmas"

"Christmas" - Not "Xmas"

I don't like when the term "Xmas" is used. To me, this supports the main problem that I see with the "Christmas" season.

To me - Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of the Savior and taking his name out of the holiday is the whole reason that folks lose sight of my personal view as to the purpose of the season.

I also don't like the commercialism and such, but as a family we have managed to stay centered around the whole spirit of Christmas and it is generally a wonderful time of year.

Merry Christmas Friends..
 
Thought some of you might find this interesting. Xmas can be good or bad, depending on how you interpret it.

The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.[1]

Some believe that the term is part of an effort to "take Christ out of Christmas" or to literally "cross out Christ";[2] it is also seen as evidence of the secularization of Christmas, as a symptom of the commercialization of the holiday (as the abbreviation has long been used by retailers). It may also be used as a vehicle to be more inclusive (See political correctness).
The labarum, often called the Chi-Rho, is a Christian symbol representing Christ.
The labarum, often called the Chi-Rho, is a Christian symbol representing Christ.

The occasionally held belief that the "X" represents the cross Christ was crucified on has no basis in fact. St Andrew's Cross is X-shaped, but Christ's cross was probably shaped like a T or a ?. Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be, since the cross as a Christian symbol developed later. (The Greek letter Chi Χ stood for "Christ" in the ancient Greek acrostic ΙΧΘΥΣ ichthys.) While some see the spelling of Christmas as Xmas a threat, others see it as a way to honor the martyrs. The use of X as an abbreviation for "cross" in modern abbreviated writing (e.g. "Kings X" for "Kings Cross") may have reinforced this assumption.

In ancient Christian art χ and χρ are abbreviations for Christ's name.[3] In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC (the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma); compare IC for Jesus in Greek. The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this abbreviation back to 1551, 50 years before the first English colonists arrived in North America and 60 years before the King James Version of the Bible was completed. At the same time, Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of "Christian" and "Christianity"; and nowadays still are sometimes so used, but much less than "Xmas". The proper names containing the name "Christ" other than aforementioned are rarely abbreviated in this way (e.g. Hayden Xensen for the actor name "Hayden Christensen"). Pop artist Christina Aguilera is known to spell her first name as 'Xtina'.

This apparent usage of "X" to spell the syllable "kris" (rather than the sounds "ks") has extended to "xtal" for "crystal", and on florists' signs "xant" for "chrysanthemum"[4] (though these words are not etymologically related to "Christ"; "crystal" comes from a Greek word meaning "ice", and "chrysanthemum" from Greek words meaning "golden flower", while "Christ" comes from a Greek word meaning "anointed").

In the animated television show Futurama, which is set in the 31st century, Xmas, pronounced "eks-mas", is the official name for the day formerly known as Christmas (which has become an "archaic pronunciation").

In Japanese media and goods, Xmas/X-mas is commonly misspelled as "X'mas" in what amounts to an instance of wasei-eigo, or English made in Japan.
 
I don't like going out and blowing all the money that we DON"T HAVE on crap for the kids that will just sit in the back of their closets two weeks from now...not really in the christmas spirit....I have strep throat, and it HURTS...The doc prescribed Vicodin though....That's nice!
 
aussigal said:
I get really depressed and grumpy when confronted with all the commercialism of Christmas and how we are harrassed by those big shops into believing we must have everything, the best presents and best holidays and best food etc., etc., etc.,

Sadly, its all about the money nowadays...you are expected to be happy and excited about buying expensive presents for kids that dont need any more stuff.

Whatever happened to the family Christmas gatherings with simple gifts, midnight mass and a delicious home-cooked meal that we celebrated as kids ?...
That's the kind of christmas I miss! Family, dinners, you know? I haven't been back to MN in years!
 
The only thing wrong with Christmas is it is only one week away from New Year's Day. I do not like New Year's--seriously!
 
Hank said:
I don't like when the term "Xmas" is used. To me, this supports the main problem that I see with the "Christmas" season.

To me - Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of the Savior and taking his name out of the holiday is the whole reason that folks lose sight of my personal view as to the purpose of the season.

I also don't like the commercialism and such, but as a family we have managed to stay centered around the whole spirit of Christmas and it is generally a wonderful time of year.

Merry Christmas Friends..

In keeping with the joys of the birth of Christ, I used to make birthday cakes for Jesus. Really.
 
Ben Smith said:
Explain!!!!!!!

I used to just love New Year's Eve. Joe and I used to get decked out and go out for dinner, followed by an evening of dancing and bringing in the newness of the coming year.

When my children were little my husband and I would take them to join another family and at midnight the firecrackers were brought out, waking their neighborhood.

Daughter & I just go to bed early these days. She might go to Church this year to see the year in with the youngsters.
 
The commercialism for sure. Too much hype! Too much advertising way too soon.

Buying gifts with money you don't have and then having to struggle to eat or pay your own bills for the next few months1

I also do not understand everyone busting their butts trying to get their loved ones the perfect gift! All it causes is stress! I see stress on a lot of people's face everywhere!

Celebrating the birth of Christ and being together with family is what it should be all about!

I hate having to be PC . See Gina's post! To say Happy Holiday, would include all of the holidays for all year!:rolleyes: We live inthe USA, so why are we going generic? I too want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
 
I hate Christmas - commercialism, stress of buying "perfect" gifts (blame the media and stores) with money you don't have, NOT particularly fond of turkey (but I do like my roast beef, all pink and drippy, and gravy, and mashed potatoes....). We don't have a big family, (no offspring), and what is left of it lives out of town, so there will just be the two of us Christmas day. DH has a 24/7 type of job, and is working Christmas day morning, so this year I will sleep in (a real treat for me), then open our small gifts (we have agreed, about $40 each on stocking-stuffer things) and then have a good dinner (and there is a roast beef in the freezer, maybe I will do Yorkshire pudding to go along with yummmmmmmm). We do have a small tree up, his neices, sister and father/stepmother are coming on 27th for lunch, and I will go out for lunch sometime over the season with a few friends, but that's about it.

Oh, yeah, I have chronic depression, and some seasonal affective disorder in there, and have ALWAYS hated this time of the year (it's why my parents run off to Texas for 5 months every year). Now, I don't know what it would be like if it was July 25th, warm and sunny ????? There's a question .
 
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