Let’s let Christmas be about Christ, and not even about “the Christmas presents” as we know them.
“The Christmas presents” are a nice symbol, but letting them distract us into worldliness vitiates the point.
I hear you. When I was a youngster in school the teachers would invariably have the kids one by one tell the class what they got for Christmas. I know several told fibs just to say something good.
I vowed as a teacher and administrator that was not going to happen on my watch and even instilled in the kids I had in Sunday School and Kids’ Church not to ask “what did you ‘git’ for Christmas?” For we all have heard the follow-up . . . . “is that all you got?”
I emphasized this every year and they got the message. . .the parents, well that’s another story. Another activity I did with the students in Sunday School/Kids’ Church was to take a hot commodity item and show on the white board how many hours (using minimum wage) a parent/grandparent would have to work just to purchase that item. It was a “wow” moment for many of them.
The birth of Jesus should be in our hearts and minds every day. . .for He was born to die for the sins of the world.