Tis the Season to give? What does that mean?

Is Christmas all about giving and receiving presents? Or is it about Christmas trees and Santa Claus? Or is it about Jesus? or is it about Christians? Or is it about money? Or stress? Or about defending the stuff you were taught and believe?

Tis the Season to give? humm I have no money to give? I have no money to buy gifts?... Why?... I am upset, I love to give.. I have the perfect gifts picked out in this head of mines gift cart!!

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you. Deuteronomy 16: 17

When i was a kid we made gifts! Momma worked on gifts all month! Our dinning room was a mess, till a week before Christmas! Then we had parties at our house and began going to both my grandparents houses to pile 50 people in one house and call it marry! LOL Tis the Season to have JOY!! What happen to that? As a kid I was as joyful as can be! Thought I was the luckiest kid in town going to school the first day, after our Winter break, wearing my new high water paints, my new necklace, new boots, and my pony tail on the the side! I look back and think, wow... what a nerd!! But I was joyful then!  

Luke 2: 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

11For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 

So do gifts bring JOY? Of course, are you crazy?  God is just laying it on my heart today that this Christmas when I open any gifts, I may receive, to STOP take it slow as if i was one of the Kings.

 Matthew 2:10-11   9-10Instructed by the king, they set off. Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies. It led them on until it hovered over the place of the child. They could hardly contain themselves: They were in the right place! They had arrived at the right time!  11They entered the house and saw the child in the arms of Mary, his mother. Overcome, they knelled and worshiped him. Then they opened their luggage and presented gifts: gold, frankincense, myrrh.

Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance -- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved  Augusta E. Rundel

Christmas for me is about my heart and what God wants me to be! Christmas is the Birth of Jesus and meant to be praised! The wii, Iphone, TV, toys, just the things we waste money on, putting stress onto ourselves wasn't even in existence when Jesus was born! Now the food, gold, candles, perfumes, and people were!!!  ha ha ;)

Hope everyone has a great month this month and don't get to worked up on just one day, Christmas is everyday!  God didn't make us to stress!