Merry Christmas?

This may seem kinda rude but I have to rant about it because it really gets on my nerves.
Christmas!! We celabrate Christmas in rememberance of the birth of Jesus. We give gifts because the wise men brought gifts to him.
The thing that gets on my last nerve is to hear everyone talking about my kids won't have Christmas this year. Where is Jesus in all of this?
Maybe it's just the misuse of the word. I really don't know. Christmas is not gifts. It is about God being born of a woman to come to offer himself as a sinless sacrafice because his blood was the only blood that could atone our sins.
Please don't say that your kids won't have Christmas if you can't afford gifts. We can have Christmas everyday as long as we have Jesus!!

Alabama

Life has been plugging along here since we moved back top Louisiana. It seems like things are going well. Relationships have been renewed. Lot's of good things going on.
We have a wonderful church that we're a part of here.
But in my heart there is a longing to be back in Alabama. I have an intence burden for the people there. God definantly has a work to be done there. He needs people there. He confirmed that he wanted us there and always took care of us. But as usual my flesh gets stronger, I get scared and run back home where I feel safe. I'm tired of running. Lord I can't keep running from your will. May 2011 be lived being obident to you my Lord!!