Christmas lights, decorative trees, and of course fat Santa, has increasingly become part of the festive fabric of Cambodia. Attempting to explain the truest meaning of Christ-mas to those who literally know nothing of Christ puts it in a refined perspective. For even they agree it would have been quite silly and absurd for God to have sent His Son into the world merely because He thought it needed another holiday–“Just look at those poor chaps Jesus. They look like they could use another jolly day off life. I’m thinking something with ornaments this time…You wanna go take care of that Son?”  The FIRST Christmas was more about rescue than ribbons, wreaths and reindeer. He came, He saw, He assumed our judgment and conquered the grave because he saw racism, greed, Crusades, Auschwitz and Tuel Slang slimed all over our hearts. It’s because of that inconvenient truth that there needed to be a first Christmas in the first place… lest we forget.  -Strider MTB