Christmas is a very important event in the year.
In spite of what many people say or do, they all find Christmas important in some way or another. Some simply because they are Christians and really want to celebrate the coming of the Christ as he saved our planet from dying. But others, because these days they feel lonelier than all other days in the year, as on the other days people are going their way, but at Christmas all of a sudden they try to make life as cosy as possible, spending it with their loved ones, whether family or friends. These lonely people might hate Christmas then, yet it is important to them as they develop such strong emotions about it.
Christmas is the time where thoughts of love and peace are more pronounced than ever.
I had an ”interesting” conversation with a woman in the supermarket the other day.
I wished everybody a very beautiful and merry Christmas, and she was not having it. She would be working and so for her it didn’t matter.
I told her that in her work she could spend some extra energy in making it loving. She said it was the 'cheapest' feast in the year, because now people think of love. They should think of love all year around.
Of course I agree in that.
But does that make it wrong that at Christmastime people seem to be more aware of this?
Be realistic, people are not loving all year around and the fact that they should be, does not make them loving!!
What ever we do, feel or want with this, the fact is that from the 15 of January onwards, or even earlier, their normal trot through life starts again, and they forget a lot about all those good intentions.
And then at some point in the year it is Christmas again, and there you go…. They remember that love and peace are very important values. They do their best again to bring this into practice.
This they do every year again, and again, and again. And that is wonderful! Because the fact that it is Christmas reminds them of the good they actually carry inside of themselves, and by doing this every year, this bit of practising, every year they augment their own capacity of love and peace, which means that gradually they take bits of this into their daily life. Every year a bit more, every year a bit more convinced, every year a bit stronger. Because we humans tend to want to do things “more” each time, as if we were in a competition; a competition with ourselves.
Then we see all these charity fund rising happenings going on just before and during
Christmas. People simply are more generous during this time of year.
Is that bad? I feel, that if at any other time they would not want to even think about a child with leukaemia, or a woman stoned to death in Africa, or homeless children in Tibet, to mention some examples, yet they are willing to face these truths now, during this period of year, and are willing to help whether with money or material or whatever they do, that that is great. For better late than never… or?
Who are you anyway, that “you” that feels you are allowed to judge what is so right and so wrong? Have you discovered all aspects? Is your conscience really clean? Do you know all the backgrounds of all and everything?
You know what I really feel? That being grateful, being tolerant, is really wonderful. And that to me seems like wisdom. But condemning to me feels wrong. One can express one’s emotions, but… fill in yourself. For even here I feel I am not allowed to continue, except within myself.
Happy New Year to you all!!! In Love, Ria
