Am I prepared for Christmas?

Am I prepared for Christmas? 
Everyone keeps asking if I'm prepared for Christmas?
Honestly? No! I am not looking forward to this Christmas season! 
Why? Simply because I feel that Christmas is not all it's cracked up to be.
It is way too commercialised! It is all about spending money! Buy! Buy! Buy!
Spend your money here! Buy this! Buy that! It's not about Jesus' birth! It's not about Jesus at all! If you look back through history...Jesus was born at a totally different time. Just because the world decided that 25th December should be celebrated as Jesus' birth does not make it a holy day. Why can't we be more Christ-like every day of the year? Why can't we help our neighbours every other day of the year? Why is it only at Christmas that we think of others? What ever happened to caring for the widows, orphans, the poor, the homeless, the destitute...every single day of the year? In a world filled with greed and surfeit of everything...here in the developed countries...we throw away so much food...
Does anybody really care about those overseas who are starving? Those who lost their homes in natural disasters, those who have nothing due to wars and hatred...
Ah Lord it hurts me to see so many people...just like you and me...not give a damn about those less fortunate than themselves...so full of their own busy little lives...that they have no thought for anyone but themselves...
God help us!

14th December 2015