Advent Conspiracy

We are doing an interesting and though provoking study in Sunday School this month. It is call the Advent Conspiracy and it is about bringing Christ back into Christmas. The first week was about worshipping fully. How often the thing that we worship at Christmas is finding the "perfect" gift. Perfect because it cost the right amount (want to impress, want to save money, agreed to spend $20); perfect because we know the person so well, perfect because we would love to have one, perfect because we will get to use it, too, but we can count it as a gift...you get the idea.
The PERFECT gift was given all those years ago by a God with a plan for each of us.
How often the thing we worship at Christmas is "time off " to do nothing or do something different or spend time alone or spend time with loved ones.
Why do we need time off to do these things? Perhaps we should take time off from our important life to be still and know God. Christmas is a good time to start that.
So, anyway, the point is that we should worship fully the Baby, the life he showed us and gave up for us. It isn't about the stuff that we gather, give, return...and other wise worship. It is about loving...not stuff.
Give presence. Do you or anyone you know really need anything?
Just think about it...