Christmas is coming too soon!!

One second, someone said that word. Yes, just as November melts into December, someone said Christmas.

That one word is far too powerful in our society today. It has the power to make the general population to fork out millions each year, and the power to make them shudder at the prospect of an ever-growing list of preparations that must be done this time around.

Less and less subconsciously each year, we are hyping up to the effort and exhaustion that is the Christmas break. Whilst we may groan about that longer Christmas card list, or that person who we can never think of anything to buy for Christmas, we still continue plugging along with what Christmas has become.

Sometimes, the preparations for a Christmas service is all about the mince pies afterwards, and not really about the real meaning of Christmas, that through God's love for us and His plan, He sent His Son to become man and eventually die for us.

Christmas has come too early, and it's mainly because we add too much to the list of jobs to do.