Year after year, Christmas comes and goes, and we busy ourselves in the merry festivities that come with it. I once saw a hoarding on a busy freeway in New Jersey: Bring Christ back into Christmas. Christmas trees and sweets, Santa Claus and gifts, carols and cakes — all of these substitute for the real joy of Christmas, and we go through this perhaps not missing anything at all. In fact, we now call the feast, “Xmas”, rubbing out its first six letters — thus missing the real gift of Christmas!!!
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