Tis' the Season Filled With Folly!

Well, it is just thirty days until Christmas! It is a time filled with joy, celebration and personal reflection....for some!

I fear, however, that Christmas, for millions, has become a season with more 'folly' than 'jolly' associated with it.

Folly is defined as, "the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding.
A costly and foolish undertaking; unwise investment or expenditure."

I find, increasingly, that the Christmas season is filled with foolish behavior on the part of people who have little or no true understanding of what the season is all about! It has become a season in which we spend money that ought not to be spent; circulate from one 'party' to another, drinking ourselves into oblivion; and do our best to outdo all others in the neighborhood with decorations, inside and out! We do these things, I suspect, in order to feel good about ourselves and the superficial lives we lead throughout the year.

We have come to battle each other in the aisles of the 'merchant cathedrals' to buy gifts, with little understanding that WE have actually been 'bought' by the ideas and false notions of a society that cares nothing of what is truly important, uplifting and encouraging in life. Indeed, "the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding.
A costly and foolish undertaking; unwise investment or expenditure." The Folly of the Season!

We invest our time in the pursuit of an ever increasing and elusive 'happiness' that rarely comes our way unless priorities are established and understanding is appropriated for ourselves.

I do not, however, wish to paint with an overly broad stroke here. There are some who understand the supreme significance of the birth of that man/God we know as Jesus, the Christ. For these good folks, the season is what it ought to be....a simple celebration which calls attention to the greatest story of love ever expressed. We celebrate the Man who has provided for us in eternity..... if we make the effort to get things right!