If you're a shopper, you know that Christmas shopping doesn't start until Black Friday, the day of the greatest sales in the history of sales. However, this doesn't and hasn't stopped people from putting up their Christmas decorations. In fact, my hospital has already put up Christmas decorations complete with a rooftop light display.
I will take a bold stand here and now and say that it is too early, FAR too early, to be putting up Christmas decorations, playing Christmas music, having festive Christmas-themed coffee cups, selling Christmas coffee blends, putting out Christmas books and music and all this Christmas STUFF!
One should not begin to display such seasonal fare until Thanksgiving evening or the Friday after Thanksgiving.
And please consider that the purpose and point of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ into our world, and not because of Santa Claus. We are too consumer driven, and have managed to transform December 25 into a spectacular show of opulence and wealth, when in actuality, Christmas began in the simplest of settings: a barn, a manger.
Christmastime is not here yet
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