Early Holiday Reflection

There are Christmas decorations and music throughout the shopping mall. I liked it even though its a month or so away. For me, the anticipation of Christmas is as wonderful as the actual day of celebration.

"It seems to me in retrospect that the department stores and the dime stores did an excellent job of extending the 'sacred space' of Christmas in those days. And I sometimes wonder whether for people of no religion, this might have been the only sacred space they knew. When people rail now against the 'commercial nature of Christmas,' I'm always conflicted an unable to respond. Because I think those who would banish commercialism from the holiday fail to understand how precious and comforting the shop displays and music can be."
~ Anne Rice, Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession