Merry Christmas!

This year I've noticed more people saying "happy holidays." I even heard someone say "merry holiday." I sometimes wish people would stop trying to be so PC and just say Merry Christmas or even Happy Christmas! Christ is the reason we celebrate. We should remember Him. Like Elder Uchtdorf said in his talk last week during the 1st Presidency Christmas Devotional, can we see Christ in Christmas? I think it's an important question to ask ourselves.

I also found this quote from President Packer, it was an excerpt printed in the Church News recently from a talk he gave at BYU back in December 1962 but it still applies today:

Of all times of the year, at Christmastime

Latter-day Saints ought

to be the most joyful, ought to have

greater cause for festivity

than anyone, ought to enjoy the

Christmas tree and the

holly wreath and the stockings

and the mistletoe and gifts

and toys and children and even

reindeer that can fly!

When you accept the true account of

the birth of Christ,

it will indeed

"Bring thee the light of thy childhood again."