This year the family is celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas on the same weekend due to the fact that my Sister and Brother in law will be in town on Thanksgiving but not over Christmas.
This requiredus to come up with some name for the holiday that signifies that we are celebrating both Thanksgiving and Christmas together. ChrisThxgivinmas was what came to mind, and thus the name of this post.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are two of my favorite holidays. Probably because it usually means that family is together, but more importantly because we get to enjoy a holiday that points us to thankfulness, and a holiday that points to Christ’s birth.
I woke up this morning thinking about how my family is making the two holidays into one this year and I started thinking about how, really, these two holidays can be easily interchanged, but only for the Christian.
The non-christian wouldn’t want to swap a holiday where you get presents for one where you only get turkey.
But for the Christian thanksgiving should be a time to thank God for all that he’s done for us, which should always culminate in our thankfulness for the gift of his Son. And Christmas, though it centers around the birth of Jesus with the Nativity story, usually leaves me with a feeling of thankfulness. So the two really are a good pair and I’m really looking forward to it.
Happy ChrisThxgivinmas
