Christmas With A Purpose
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have had a great day thus far and continue to enjoy the last week of 2007! I, for one, will be looking for some time to write, both for the blog here and just in general. For those of you who haven't heard yet, we're pulling Regenerate Our Culture back to it's feet, starting with the magazine, and I really hope to write a few articles over there this year.
I was talking to a friend the other day and she made a comment that made me think. Somewhere along the way, we've made Christmas about visiting family we pretend to like and stuffing our faces with food. Instead of focusing on Christ and really enjoying our time with family, we've turned instead gluttony and being fake. Where's the "joy to the world" and "peace on earth" in that? Well, today I'm making it a point to really be thankful for what Christ has done for me, I'm going to enjoy spending time with my family -- fairly easy since I actually like most of them... okay, all of them -- and while I'm going to enjoy the food that is always amazing around here, I will not stuff my face. I promise.
Today, and life in general, really is different when you come at it with a purpose. Try it, enjoy the difference, taste the rainbow. Merry Christmas!
P.S. If you're interested in being involved with ROC at all, drop us a line -- contact [at] regenerateourculture [dot] com -- and let us know how you want to be involved! We're still in the beginning stages of pulling it all back together, but we're going to need plenty of writers, probably some people who can proofread articles, and since I'm currently working on the website, I could use some people who enjoy burying themselves in PHP. Once things get rolling, it would also be great to have some people who enjoy photography and graphic design.
I was talking to a friend the other day and she made a comment that made me think. Somewhere along the way, we've made Christmas about visiting family we pretend to like and stuffing our faces with food. Instead of focusing on Christ and really enjoying our time with family, we've turned instead gluttony and being fake. Where's the "joy to the world" and "peace on earth" in that? Well, today I'm making it a point to really be thankful for what Christ has done for me, I'm going to enjoy spending time with my family -- fairly easy since I actually like most of them... okay, all of them -- and while I'm going to enjoy the food that is always amazing around here, I will not stuff my face. I promise.
Today, and life in general, really is different when you come at it with a purpose. Try it, enjoy the difference, taste the rainbow. Merry Christmas!
P.S. If you're interested in being involved with ROC at all, drop us a line -- contact [at] regenerateourculture [dot] com -- and let us know how you want to be involved! We're still in the beginning stages of pulling it all back together, but we're going to need plenty of writers, probably some people who can proofread articles, and since I'm currently working on the website, I could use some people who enjoy burying themselves in PHP. Once things get rolling, it would also be great to have some people who enjoy photography and graphic design.
posted by Jake A. Smith at
2:22 PM
1 Comments:
Yes, it's true Christmas has become about pretending to like extended family we never see and eattinng too much -- Christ gets lost in all the Xmas mayhem.
Sadly, Christ getting pushed to the side seems to happen all year long, and not just through December.
You have a nice blog, I've enjoyed looking through it some this morning. :-)
~Kelsey
http://setapart.wordpress.com
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