December 15, 2005

• Merry Xmas

  Ok, so with 9 days left until Christmas, I am finally getting into the Christmas spirit.

  
  

  I don’t know what’s been keeping me back. Maybe cause I was busy, or because of my hectic final schedule, but I didn’t feel it like I usually do. Yesterday, I finally felt connected to the “reason for the season”.

  
  

  For me Christmas is about God, the birth of our savior Jesus Christ and the celebration of our love for him, and his love for us. Growing up, the Advent season meant lots of time with the church, special traditions that symbolize the coming of Christ’s birth, music that told of our joy at his coming and the awe of the miracle of his birth.

  
  

  I just wasn’t getting that this year. Until yesterday. I have been listening to Christmas music, but yesterday I started listening to old traditional carols, the one’s that truly talk about the miracle of Christmas, and my heart swelled with love and gratitude. Now — I am ready for Christmas! Even if I don’t get any more decorating done, or baking, or wrapping… Now Christmas is here.

  
  

  A very cool thing I learned the other day.. do you know that Xmas is not a secularization of the word Christmas? It actually comes from Greek –

  
  

  Xmas (or X-mas) is an abbreviation for Christmas. It is derived from the word ×ÑÉÓÔÏÓ, transliterated as Christos, which Greek for Christ. Greek is the language in which the whole New Testament was written.

  
  

  Originally, in “Xmas”, X represented the Greek letter ÷ . It was pronounced with an aspirated [kh], which is the first letter of Christ’s name in Greek. An upper-case ÷ has the same shape as a Latin alphabet letter X, hence the abbreviation “Xmas”.

  
  

  Found this explanation at wikipedia.

  
  

  I was very happy to hear that, even though people are trying to take Christ out of Christmas…. all things lead back to him!

  
  

  Sooooo……………

  
  

  Merry Xmas!

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