A friend emailed me this link to check out, and so I did: www.adventconspiracy.org
I love it. The idea of making Christmas about Jesus instead of consumerism…doesn’t seem like a crazy idea to me, but a lot of people would likely get grumpy about it. I love giving gifts, and yes, I do love getting gifts…does that make me greedy? Maybe it doesn’t have to be a no-gift-situation. There must be something in between. Every year on November 1st I start getting angry…Halloween over, and then all of a sudden it’s Christmas stuff. Go shopping, Christmas music. Go to Walmart, Christmas decorations everywhere. Can’t stand it. I love giving gifts, but not the obligatory gifts – know what I mean? Giving gifts is truly a blessing to me, so I don’t think I would do away with all of them. Yet if I just said to my family or Greg’s family – hey, how about we do this advent conspiracy thing this year? – there would potentially be a lot of freak outs. And I’m not sure I could see my church getting on board. So what do we do? It’s easy at this point to say – next year will be different – but I don’t feel super optimistic about that happening. I would love to find a middle ground on this stuff. If anyone out there has found the middle ground, I’d be interested in hearing about it!
