Where is God?

Well, you could ask this nowadays many times as we read such an amount of wars which are going on. You could ask this also when reading about the rise of racism.

Or even when you read how human kind is going on in destroying our nature and therefor our future.

But this blog won't be about this.

It's christmas time and here I could ask you that too. Where is god in all this?

Christmas celebrating was to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ- though he was born in summer, this event went to winter time, as this was once a celebrated time before from the old "religious". So to make people comfortable with such a new tradition, they blend it with an old and made people believe we celebrate the birth of a child, but we are much to late. 

Anyway this time is a time to come together and also of course as everybody wants it perfect- a time for war and families shouting at each other. It's the truth and that is family. No one is perfect and to expect this will only made the days a challenge. 

But that is not why I ask about the GOD is not to found thing. 

Yes, I can't see him anymore, though I see the face of him and of course he is everywhere, thought we should never name him or show him. Clearly he is a mind, whatever big, an awareness. We can't even think and imagine how big and that is good and we should maybe not even try it. 

But where is he in our christmas celebration as a thing we can touch? I mean I use to have the feeling of joy and expectation. I use to be happy about that time and have warm feelings and I am not a christ or part of any religious. It was always a time where I knew my family would do some traditional things. I knew every family has some. Only in December you could eat some special cake and bake the bread and on christmas evening we eat our christmas meal. 

But now you can buy all the christmas bakery in September, some of them already in August. The shops started their decoration already in October, but latest time now is November. No one waits in this - buy me and sell me time. But the waiting was one of the things which made this time so special. Now it has become an - everyday thing- a- like. 

And then... I use to enjoy the lights, the stars in the windows but it became too much. More lights, more colors and the christmas tree rises in homes already the 1. December. But this tree is a symbol just for the christmas days?! What happened with waiting? 

After all christmas is a celebrating time mostly for children. But many have forgotten or never learned where christmas came from and why we celebrate it. Many have forgotten or never learned that the waiting and making a special day(s) is the secret of this wonderful idea. The spirit of christmas has gone in many homes. But that is what it is about- so I thought. The respect for each other. The love for each other. To be grateful for each other and for what you have. The come together. It is to share time and not present. It's to share stories of your life and not movies on TV. 

It's to look at each other with a warm heart and love, not to push things to the limit and maximum. 

But TV and Media and the shops and the result of this made me feel not feeling this christmas feeling since a view years. I see the lights, enjoy them but I feel sad too. It has all become very empty. I miss the earnest in all that. I see just the cover not the deep thought behind. I see the commerce. Many times I think, what beautiful this and that is but when I come near those things, I feel they are empty. 

That is why I ask where god is in this? He is of course in everything but we have made a lot of job to hide this fact. Jesus Christ would not be happy and in pain seeing this. He would perhaps feel more pain as he could on the cross. 

So, I thank a friend of mine, who is a very talented artist, to gave me permission to show you a pic he made. I think it shows very well how this christmas thing became. Jesus is now in pain of all the corny things, of all the commerce and of all the things which have nothing really to do with christmas. 

Rüdiger Trautsch is the name of the man whos foto you will see now...

copyright@Rüdiger Trautsch

Maybe you think about all this and try to celebrate this time with less - just let it shine and have no meaning-. Maybe you put the love back inside all this and learn waiting for the days by enjoying the little steps.  That is what Advent is for.

LOVE & LIGHT