I don’t know what you mean when you say, “Why doesn’t it feel like Christmas anymore?” Do you mean at this time—that it doesn’t feel like Christmas is coming—or it hasn’t felt this way for years? Are you young and remembering the excitement of Christmas when you were a child? Christmas is quite different sometimes once you’re grown up. When you’re a child, you have parents to create all the magic and do all the work. When you grow up, you have to do it all.
Not everyone celebrates Christmas or feels the need to make “the spirit of Christmas stronger.” Some people prefer to just live their lives as best they can throughout the year and not make a big deal about holidays. Some people get depressed around the holidays because they think about past holidays and may miss the people who have died. Is it because somehow, though, we remember the small joyful moments and feel that now as adults and having to do all the prep work, we feel we are missing out.
To me it means it does not feel like it used to feel as a kid.. I can remember back and smile when I think of school Christmas parties where we picked a name and brought a gift for that person, we would all eat in our classrooms together with the special snack that our parents would prepare for that day, then we would exchange gifts and we always got the teachers a gift.
We would usually have a short assembly and then we would all run out the door for a two week vacation. Then when we got home Mom was likely in the kitchen making cookies or in her bedroom wrapping gifts and we had better not go in there snooping. We would snoop though to see who’s name was on the biggest package and then we would tell each other who owned the gift.
On Christmas Eve we had to go to bed at 9:00 at the latest so we could be sure to be asleep so we wouldn’t see “Santa”. We would wake really early, creep to Mom and Dads room and wake them then we would all go to the living room and start with opening our stockings. It wouldn't be long and the smell of turkey would be going thru the house as we started playing with our toys and going to visit cousins.
The Spirit of Christmas is about joy at the birth of the
baby Jesus. Nowadays things are so commercialized
that we might not feel the spirit of Christmas any more.
One way to feel it is by spreading the happiness to those
who might need it, like the elderly or those who live in a
shelter. This can be done through donations, or
volunteering, or by handing out gifts. One can also spend
time with one’s family in a meaningful way. Maybe attend
a Christmas concert, or have a quiet dinner, or invite the
whole family over to exchange gifts.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Who is your neighbor?
Anyone who needs you.
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