Surprise, surprise! I am writing two blogs on one day! But it’s coming at a good cause.
Last Sunday at our Christian church, they showed a video about a movement called the Advent Conspiracy. The message was pertaining to the true meaning of Christmas, to “Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, and Love All.”
The minister talked about how the true meaning of Christmas went from worshipping the birth of Jesus to shopping lists and buying presents. It made me realize how blind we can be to what is going on in other parts of the world as well as here in America, with families who are less fortunate. People tend to spend countless amounts of money to buy their children and spouses the best presents they could ever have, while there are families with children who don’t even have clean drinking water. He asked truly thought provoking questions which were something along the lines of (and I’m not saying his exact words but you’ll get the idea):
“Does your child really need that extra toy? Are they really going to die without it?”
“And are you just buying the most expensive presents because you are trying to buy your spouse or your child’s love or show off how much money you have when they open the presents in front of people? If so, there’s something wrong with that relationship.”
Then he challenged us to sacrifice and buy one less present this Christmas. With that money, we can donate it to charity.
The Advent Conspiracy is such a charity who is collecting donations to help build or repair water wells so families in third world countries can have clean drinking water. So that’s my challenge this Christmas. I’m going to hand make all my presents and with the money I would have spent buying mindless gifts, I’m going to give it to charity! So hope you can join me in this movement too!
You can see the Advent Conspiracy website here: http://www.adventconspiracy.org/
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