{"id":2668,"date":"2021-12-25T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2021-12-26T16:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T22:36:22","slug":"what-a-way-to-celebrate-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/25\/what-a-way-to-celebrate-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"What a way to celebrate Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remember when I was growing up, Christmas was one of the days I used to look forward to&#8230;it still is my best holiday season by the way \ud83d\ude42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, back then, it was all about the new cloth I got to wear to church on Christmas day (always has to be new!), as well as the Christmas gifts, and my mum&#8217;s special Christmas dishes (taste still lingers in my memory, yummy! \ud83d\ude0b). I actually overate on one Christmas and had diarrhea all thru the next day \ud83d\ude00\u2026 it wasn&#8217;t funny at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, other things that got me excited was the Christmas decorations&#8230;lighting, glittering, Santa Claus, and of course the Christmas songs were and still are my favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Times have changed indeed&#8230;as I look around this Christmas, I see the world evolving in the celebration of Christmas. I see the social media filled with lovely pictures of families in matching Christmas pjs with beautiful Christmas trees in the background. I look at the TV and see hundreds of Christmas movies showing at this time. I listen to the radio and hear lots of remix of Christmas songs playing on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing is clear, the joy in the season has not been lost, it remains one of the most wonderful times of the year&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, as this beautiful revolution creates more ways for us to celebrate this wonderful season, do not let us be so drifted to forget the reason for the season&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Where would we be if Jesus was not born?<\/li><li>Where would we be if God did not give His Dearly Beloved Son to die for our sins?<\/li><li>What would life be without salvation&#8230;a way to our Heavenly Father?<\/li><li>What is Christmas without Christ?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As we joyously celebrate this season, do NOT let the reason for the season be lost on us&#8230;for it is a celebration of salvation provided through the birth, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s the Season of Love\u2026for God loved the world!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s the Season of Giving\u2026for God gave His only begotten Son!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s the Season of Salvation&#8230;for God gave, that we might be saved!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s the Season of Christ!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s the celebration of Jesus&#8217;s birth&#8230;His birthday!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>It\u2019s clearly worth celebrating&#8230;Merry Christmas y&#8217;all!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude03\ud83d\ude03\ud83c\udf85\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udf84\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfd\u26ea\ud83c\udf84\u271d\ufe0f\ud83c\udfb7\ud83c\udf5a\ud83e\udd42\ud83e\uded5\ud83c\udf84<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was growing up, Christmas was one of the days I used to look forward to&#8230;it still is my best holiday season&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/25\/what-a-way-to-celebrate-christmas\/\"><i class=\"icon-long-arrow-right font-ic\"><\/i> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[73,66,67,69,71,70,72,68],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-generally-speaking","category-uncategorized","tag-birth","tag-birthday","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-jesus","tag-mum","tag-reasom","tag-season"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baringthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-12-26-at-4.18.24-PM.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baringthoughts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}