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Christmas isn't about presents - or even receiving what you want in prayer. It isn't about the giving or the receiving, or the lack there of. It isn't about lights and decorations and greetings and parties or carols or religious or secular Christmas songs and stories. It isn't about delicious food and drinks and treats and sweets. It isn't about setting up a creche in front of the courthouse or insisting upon calling a tree a Christmas tree or wearing a button that says I celebrate Christmas. It isn't about family being more important than going to church on Sunday because Christmas falls on a Sunday this year. It isn't about all of those customs and traditions that have become ritualized and formalized or just trashed over the decades.
It isn't about me or my religious and political positions, nor my moral judgements, or even my social position or influence - low or high or in-between or non-existent. It isn't about who is for us or who is against us.
It is about love.
Beloved,
let us love one another
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten of God
and has knowledge of God.
The man without love has known nothing of God
and has no knowledge of God,
for God is love....
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