Will we miss the Reason for the Season

I like the christmasy mood of love, peace and goodwill.
This christmas, met up with a couple of really precious friends for meals. ;) There's good food, drinks and company. There's good christmas shopping with SALES all over the place.
But something seems to be missing...

Could it be, we are missing the true reason behind the season?

I don't need the steak
I don't need the xmas lights
I don't need the beer & champagne.

Had lunch with colleagues @ Outback Steak.....expensive meal.
Had dinner yest night at Clark Quay...food was so expensive! :S

What mattered was not the food....
it could jolly well have been at the hawker centre...

Eating char siew noodles with HY today was nice and warm. Did some shopping too. ;)
Watched Charlotte's Web. Er...have I grown up or the plot seems simplistic? ;)

Another gem of a song from Casting Crowns:

While You Were Sleeping

Oh little town of Bethlehem
Looks like another silent night
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
A giant star lights up the sky
And while you're lying in the dark
There shines an everlasting light
For the King has left His throne
And is sleeping in a manger tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
For God became a man
And stepped into your world today
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had came
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping

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Will we be sleeping?
Singapore, will you be shopping and eating?