Christmas isn’t tasteful, isn’t simple, isn’t clean, isn’t elegant. Give me the tacky and the exuberant and the wild, to represent the impossibly boisterous fact that God has intruded in this world.
Source: Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)
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Thank you for that reblog, I loved it. Embrace the chaotic and boisterous madness of Christmas! God may well be elegant and tasteful, but our receiving Him properly should leave us totally ruined, about as ravished as my living room today. 😉
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Yes! I could never put my finger on what rankled me so much by the “Christmas is ruined by commercialism” comments. This explains it so well.
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I hope your Christmas was very merry, IB. And that it continues to be for at least the next few days.
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