I must confess, I used to be a huge fan of Christmas. I couldn't wait to celebrate and remind everyone, "Jesus was the reason for the season." However, I learned several years about the pagan origins of Christmas. I continued to learn and explore thanks to G_d bringing people in my life with more knowledge and experience than me. See "Truth or Tradition" by Jim Staley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg5-v0SPRgk&sns=em
Also, you can easily research the origins of Christmas or other holiday online, such as at: such as Hope of Israel. http://www.hope-of-israel.org/cmas1.
I am now much more excited and happy over commanded feasts of the Bible such as Passover, and Sukkot (see Leviticus 23). I am also excited over feasts based on or mentioned in the Bible, but not commanded, such as Hannukah and Purim.
My husband and kids still like celebrating Christmas, therefore, our house is a blend of Hannukah and Christmas. We celebrate the triumph of the Temple and maintaining lit candles despite running low on oil for the lamps, see this link: http://www.chosenpeople.com/main/holidays-and-festivals/186-hanukkah-countdown-to-messiah.
We also celebrate Christmas despite it's pagan origins in support of my husband's headship of the home and his desire to celebrate it (http://m.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html).
Do you celebrate Hannukah? Christmas? Kwanza or any blend of them? What traditions do you participate in?
Hope your holiday is fabulous!!
Joycelyn
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