A Tolkien-esque Carol

The following is a bit of a Christmas carol by yours truly with some words and meter borrowed from Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien. Merry Christmas! 

Home is behind, the world ahead

and there are many paths to tread 

through desert, under yonder star 

until it settles where You are 

Christ and Savior, Lord and King 

gifts we bring, gifts we bring. 

Gold and myrrh and frankincense

on camel backs we travel hence 

until completed is our quest 

and God provides a place to rest

Palace gate or stable door 

and then no more, and then no more. 

A Thought on Keeping Christ in Christmas

I would like to say what I have to say without sounding preachy or hypocritical, but unfortunately I don't know how to do that, and since I'm going to hell anyway for cracking my knuckles and making biblical puns, I may as well get a full ride. 

I have seen approximately 749 posts, bumper stickers, and tattoos about 'Keeping Christ in Christmas' [share if you agree, ignore if you're a fiend in human form sent from hell to wreck havoc on God's good Earth] and I'd just like to make the suggestion that Christ is in Christmas whether or not we 'keep' Him in it. Christ's existence doesn't depend on my belief in Him. I believe in Him now and He exists, but if I stop believing in Him tomorrow, He won't cease to exist. If every family on Earth somehow forgot through an amnesia epidemic about the existence of God and celebrated Christmas as a secular holiday centered around gift-giving and family values, Christ would not be taken out of Christmas, because of the ontological [if that's the word I want] definition of Christmas. 

I'm not a huge fan of the attitude that all belief systems work in conjunction with each other. I don't believe that Christianity is true for me and Atheism is true for an atheist. I believe that Christianity is true for me and for the atheist because I believe that Christianity is the Truth. To quote my good friend Emerson Cod, "There is one truth and it has come a-knockin." And while Christ is more obviously present in the Christian's Christmas, I think He can present Himself in different ways to an atheist through the atheist's secular Christmas. In other words, unless I'm wrong, Christ can be in a thing even if He is never mentioned in adjacency with said thing [for better-articulated arguments, look up Peter Kreeft's thoughts on Christianity in The Lord of the Rings.]