Season's Greetings Dear Reader.

December 25th is chosen worldwide by vast numbers of people as a day of celebration. Traditionally chosen by Christians as the day each year to celebrate the incarnation, the act whereby God became Man and dwelt amongst us in the birth of Jesus (God's gift to us), it is also adopted by other people as a special day.

But what really makes it special? I suggest that it is not any religious calendar, nor is a point at which people appreciate the commercial crecendo that tends to build up to that date. It is not about any religion nor is it about any secularism. Ultimately it all comes down to the meaning people ascribe to the day and the feelings and behaviors that have become associated with the date through tradition and personal history.

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