Consumer Holiday?

   Sally and I saw our first Christmas display in a store in May (!).

   More stores will be open on Thanksgiving Day this year than last year.

   Store employees are expected to be at their stations to offer sales.

   Christmas sales have been going on for months, and now everyone seems to be first to offer even deeper discounts out of fear that shoppers will have spent all their
Christmas cash before December.

   More and more I hear people saying that Thanksgiving if their favorite holiday because it isn’t such a drain in every way.

   How did the Birth of Christ, the Savior, come to this?

   Whatever the reason, each of us has the power to say no, to instead bring our faith into focus.

   We can not consume  the Christmas story of the love of God this year, but instead live it.