Why I Tend to Consider the Christmas Season as the Most Horrible Time of the Year
Nothing has been more stressful for me than the Christmas season. I really get mad so much whenever I hear Andy Williams' famous song "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" when I think about the horrible things about the Christmas seasons.
I can evaluate some of the reasons why I tend to hate the Christmas season so much:
- It's the most hypocritical time of the year. There's the call for temporary reconciliation because it's Christmas then for the rest of the year (except the Lenten season) - all conflicts go back to normal. You can also have the wicked showing off how "generous" they are during Christmas but they are just doing it for show.
- The heavy traffic is just so annoyingly excruciating. Going to work and going home from work becomes a burden instead of a delight.
- There's a lot of carolers asking for money.
- It's the time of the year to ask for impunity for one's wrongdoing.
- People would rather be lazy than work during Christmas. That makes it worse because year-end reports and year-end inventory are very important yet you don't get as much help as you should!
- It's a time for revelry and drunkenness where people host parties that would forbid sleep to their neighbors. This in turn would lead to many road incidents.
- Parents take a u-turn from the "no lying policy" and lie about Santa Claus every Christmas. What about the whole statement that mommy or daddy will never lie?
- Worse, it's the most materialistic and pagan time of the year! Preaching about Jesus can be a chore during Christmas especially most people would rather think about materialism than Jesus all year round.
I always have the temptation to scream and shout every time it's the Christmas season because a lot of things go wrong. Christmas just keeps getting worse and worse every year. I really just want to yell, "I hate Christmas!" every time because Christmas is indeed the worst time of the year.
Yet, there are reasons to actually be positive in spite of Christmas being the worst time of the year. Then I think about how Charles H. Spurgeon saw Christmas as an opportunity. Although he would later renounce Christmas as superstition - yet he saw it as an opportunity for evangelism for the lost. I don't see any reason why Christmas evangelism should be dodged over just because I feel it's the most horrible time of the year. It's all about taking the world's problems with joy because Jesus is the reason for living!
Here's what I always think - although Jesus was not born on December 25, although Christmas has its roots from Saturnalia yet if it wasn't for Jesus' incarnation, there would be no Jesus' crucifixion and without that crucifixion there would be no Jesus' resurrection and therefore no salvation for mankind.
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