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Semester's End

Hey Folks!

Is it me or has this semester gona by really quickly?! It's weird because so much has gone on in the past few months. Being so busy I'm surprised time flew as it did. I don't know how you all feel but I cannot wait for finals to be done and Christmas to be here. The other day I was at the Youth Min Christmas party and Terry read a song that two girls wrote for a class here at Geneva. It was called "Let not Santa's sleigh fly again" to the tune of Santa Clause is coming to town. It was really well written and pretty funny, but there was alot to it as well. Christmas really is such a material holiday. We are supposed to celebrate the birth of Christ during this time, supposively the greatest thing we could ever celebrate. Instead what you see is advertising from ten different jewlery comapanies, telling you that you're a horrible person if you won't buy your sweetheart jewlery for Christmas...from their store might I add. After all, he went to Jared and every kiss begins with Kay. Recently I saw the worst of them all when they advertised a Lexus as a Christmas present, calling on you to do sth special. In the ad the husband and wife got each other Lexus'. Who does that? I don't know many people who could do that if they wanted to and those i know who could have too much common sense to blow money on that stupid a gift. I guess I've just been really annoyed with the materialism of Christmas. I think it's a time to give, not always receive. It saddens me to watch people in their haste to buy their husbands that brand new HD TV, walking right past the Salvation Army guy ringing away in the cold. It's disturbing to watch the line-up of people outside of Best Buy on black friday to get their new iPods, completely oblivious to the man below them against the wall, homeless, hungry and cold. I realize that things can't be perfect because we are all sinful, but the fact is that many problems could be easily solved. That one iPod, a little decive that plays music you already own, could feed a few dozen homeless people on Christmas day. It's pathetic really if you think about it! I dunno, maybe I'm rambeling on, but if you feel me on any of this...throw some comments. I'd love to hear some feedback from people. I think it's time we made Christmas back into what it was meant to be. Instead we have the whole world fighting over whether we should be allowed to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. who really cares if we say either cause it seems like Christmas isn't realy to merry or happy now a days anyway!

God Bless

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