Christmas is the celebration more mysterious! Christians celebrate worldwide. E 'Day special too as all traditions have been managed down from our grandparents and parents.
From November anyone forget that Christmas is coming. Colored lights decorate many town centers and shops, and artificial snow painted on shop windows, coffee. In the streets and shops, 'Christmas trees', real or plastic evergreen 'conifer', are decorated with lights and Christmas decorations.
Shopping centers become busier. speaker systems in their Christmas play 'songs', the traditional Christian Christmas carols. Very often groups of people singing these songs to raise funds for charity. In mid-December, most people decorate their homes with Christmas trees, colored lights, make different decorations around the rooms. Some people decorate their trees with apples, nuts, and candles as it was before.
In many countries, most people post Christmas greeting cards with best wishes to their friends and family, and these cards are hung on the walls of their homes then. Traditional Christmas cards showed religious pictures - Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, or other parts of the Christmas story. Today images are often winter pictures, jokes, Father Christmas, or romantic scenes of life in past times.
'Father Christmas' (or 'Santa Claus') has become the human face of Christmas. In the pictures we see the old man with long white beard, red jacket and bag of toys. Children are taught that he brings them presents the night before Christmas (or in some countries on December 6th - St. Nicholas' Day), and many children until age 7 or 8 really believe this is true. The story of Santa Claus begins with a man named St. Nicholas. He was a bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (now Turkey) in the 4th century AD. He was very shy, and wanted to give money to the poor without them knowing it. One day he climbed on the roof of a house and dropped a purse of money down the chimney. And 'landed in the stocking, which had put a girl out to dry by the fire! This may explain the belief that Father Christmas comes down the chimney and places gifts in stockings children.
For many people it is too interesting to know: How did Christmas start?
Since about 400 AD, Christians have celebrated the birth of Jesus 'Christ' means 'Messiah', the title given to Jesus Unfortunately, the true meaning of Christmas is often forgotten. It has become a non-religious holiday! More children believe in Santa Claus, not Jesus Christmas Day is a festival with food, drink too much and watch TV and other activities. But the real story of Christmas is in the Christian Bible. After Jesus was born there were some wise men who came to look for an area that is now in Iran or Saudi Arabia. It is true that there were three wise men (or Three Kings). The story said he had seen an unusual star in the sky that told them of a birth of a special king. Bringing honor to the child, brought rich gifts: gold, frankincense (a resin that burns with a beautiful smell) and myrrh (plant oil with a very strong sweet smell). These gifts tell us three basic things about Jesus: gold - a measure gift for a king, frankincense - burnt in worship of God, Myrrh - a sign of mortal human condition, used to bury the dead. Jesus lived life too difficult. He was and is 'everyman' for all of us as he has come to identify with any racial group. Christmas cards from different countries often show Mary, Joseph and Jesus in the landscape of that country, and the racial aspect of that nationality. "No other person has had an effect on human life like Jesus. He is alive, and millions who know him say today as a friend and helper in their lives. You owe it to yourself to learn more about him. He is who He claimed to be? can help us in our life today? have nothing to lose! Christmas is the time to stop and reflect on these important issues.
Merry Christmas!
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