It's No Longer Christmas

A couple more days until Christmas.  Thank God.
The stores are obscene.  They reek of desperation somehow.  The items all stacked to the rafters appear rather useless.  It makes one feel sad to see it all!  Honestly, so much useless garbage that people will waste their money on, mostly because they have to provide a gift for someone.  Most likely, if they are buying that useless garbage, they don't really care about or know the person anyways.  What has become of everyone buying into this nonsense every year? 
What is seen in the stores nowadays is not Christmas.  It is not in any way to celebrate the birth of Jesus.  It has taken on a whole new identity.  It has become solely a retail orgy.  In fact, it so totally lacks any meaning or warmth or goodness that it is pathetic.  I don't know why it is so blatant this year.  So fake, so shallow, so empty.
We left the secular Christmas ten years ago.  It was hard at first, and done out of necessity.  Today, walking through the store for my regular shopping I was thankful and relieved that this gross display of junk was not my concern.  I don't think it could look any cheaper or gaudy, but we'll see what next year brings. 

Every morning, something comes to mind during prayer that I have to ponder.  Lately it's been the inability to grasp the nonsense.  I read blogs, articles, etc. regarding the "scandal" and I find they frustrate me.  They agitate my spirit.  I've come to the conclusion that the problem is many treat the Church as a secular institution. The Catholic Church has been made over the years into the image of man.  It's the man made edifice that is crumbling. I've come to the conclusion in prayer that we should praise God for this crumbling.  Once it is done, we'll be able to worship God in Spirit and in Truth, as He asked.