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MERRY, Merry Christmas! Christmas is all about a happy and joyful time of the year. Almost everyone looks forward to having a blessed feast day, as this is totally related to the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
This season too, is all about family happiness, as this event relates to the joys that families encounter when a child is born, and so we celebrate in our homes, with family, friends and even strangers too are most welcome. A lot of things are decorated with new styles, clothes, meals, and extra special gifts are given to many, many different people, apart from families and friends. Donations are also given to those who are poor and homeless. Everyone gives something, to people somewhere, no matter how small it is.
Children have fantastic gifts, opportunities, parties, and really joyful days leading up to Christmas. Of course, it was absolutely wonderful to have given birth to a child or children, and in their growing up makes their parents and relatives very, very happy, as they see the beauty of the child who was born not so long ago. The older children do get attention as well, but the younger ones are looked after and given great gladness, for the coming of Christmas.
Preparation for the Christmas event is also very enjoyable. Prayers, carols, music, cards to share with others, parties, shopping, and creativity in all things make this a time of delight and festivity. Families love to be re-united, and so this makes everyone jubilant. Christmas meals are extremely tasty, and everything is done differently from the normal meals, and so the families do enjoy their Christmas meals.
Goodness is shown all over, such as sales on different articles, unusual outfits, decorations, and anything that is being sold. It is a time of encouragement, as everyone wants each other to do anything which will make their homes change, and look totally related to the Christmas Season.
Christmas is a time of love. In showing our love for Jesus, we should stop evil doings, frustrations, difficulties, and enmity in the lives of others, causing embarrassment. We should instead show love to others, as this is what the Lord has asked us to do. “Love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.” Disasters are not fully associated with Christmas, but sometimes it becomes an experience, and even then, everyone tries to cope as best they can during that time.
With so much joy during the Christmas season, why would some people want to commit abortion, when they are enjoying the birth of Our Lord Jesus? Can they not relate this same joy to the birth of a child which they have somehow encountered? Let us follow the Lord’s way, so that we may recognise the joy in all our circumstances, even in our sufferings, as He did this for us too. Otherwise we suffer un-necessarily in things that are happening in our lives.
Christmas is truly the most joyful time of the year, and in being so close to the New Year, the joy drifts off into the New Year. Christmas is always fully appreciative, as everyone has much to thank each other for. By showing such love to our families and friends during this Christmas time, we should then continue to let this love drift into the New Year as well.
May everyone have a loving, joyful, happy, and Merry, Merry, Christmas.
X-Mas is a time for rethinking self preservation via an annual holistic assessment:
Health check, financial statements compilation, family goals, neighborhood relations/ambiance, education/career fine tuning, etc.
Doing these tedious chores is a LOVE endeavor that rewards us with PEACE of mind that motivates our SPIRITUAL uplift.
Instead of ingesting copious rounds of:
– overly salted SWINE
– rum, whisk, beer
– opiates, hallucinogens etc
and lusting in opportunistic sexual escapades withn the SEASONAL ambiance of wanton EXCESS- that competes more and more with the proverbial SODOM.
DO:
Do prepare more vegetable dominant dishes. Restrict meats to fresh fish or poultry steamed baked or lightl sauteed
Use fruits abundantly as garnish, dessert and snacks.
Lots of clean purified water. Try slices of tangy citrus (NO SUGAR) to infuse water with aromatics and enhance quench. The latter is especially useful for cigarette and alcohol cessation protocols
Create a favorite reading passage time with famil and friends -use a theme to create structure e.g., oceans, nature, anmals. Steer clear of issues that are not suitable for youngest member of household/party
Have a group prayer session-daily aside from brief grace before meals.
Schedule /limit down recreation time
Discuss videos /gaming and moral codes with children
Do more chores -as a fun famil activity with timed rewards.
If you are more fortunate, prepare goodie bag of dry beans, tea or coffee, flour, bottle oil, crayons coloring books for your less fortunate-familiar neighbors.
Do pray-