Yesterday after fellowship, i started to think about the skit pneumatos will be performing next week.
The skit is about challenging people to think about what Christmas is all about.

So as i was sitting on my bed, i thought to myself, "what is the real meaning of Christmas?"

It was just interesting last night during our discussion about what to do in the skit; we all acknowledged how we often forget the real meaning of the festivity. I feel as if there are three different discourses on how we can talk about Christmas:
1. Gifts, shopping, food, parties, all the materialistic things (secular view)
2. The birth of Christ, sharing, loving, and remembering the less fortunate
3. Then there's this discourse of how we often forget about the REAL Christmas (Jesus, giving, love) because of all the material things.

What i mean, is the point #3 is something that we often talk about during Christmas, it's not that we're unaware of the people who are less fortunate, it's not like we're completely 'down' for Christmas being purely about gifts and shopping.
It's more like we've created another layer of 'desensitization', for a lack of a better word.
Why "desensitization"? It's because I did not really think about the real meaning of Christmas till I sat on my bed, to think. All the talk and discussions during fellowship was just part of the discourse in discussing Christmas.
I do not want to speak for everyone, but at least for myself, I felt like my share of thoughts comprised of mindless blabber about what I thought was the “real meaning of Christmas”, when I myself was not even thinking deeply about the subject.

Maybe I should further elaborate on this point...
What I’m trying to say, is that the talk of "what is the real meaning of Christmas" is actually quite common. We do indeed quite possibly forget it because of all the presents we need to get, and we may despise the heavily commercialized aspect of this holy day, but the "third layer" is an aspect in which we do regard all of those points, and then say, "hey wait a minute". But this "hey wait a minute" is also desensitized because we KNOW that we forget about the real meaning of Christmas.

I feel like I’m not getting my point straight
Hm...it's kind of like, as Christians, we have sunday school answers to problems. e.g. when someone feels really discouraged, we tell them to pray and have faith. We ourselves know that's what we should do too, but the answer is so automatic and reflexive we don't REALLY truly think about why we should do it and how it is really what to do.

So what I’m trying to say is, while there are times and events in which we know what to say and what to think; sometimes our minds are not aligned with it.

So, DO take some time to remember what Christmas is really about.

"'Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.' "
Luke 1:30-33