SHARING CHRISTMAS
Christmas could be anything. To children it means toys, candies and carnivals. To the elders it is a nostalgic reunion with plenty of foods and exchange gifts. To lovers it is a time for significant exchange of yeses or rings or anything that seals their relationship.
I just discovered a new and unique way of sharing the Christmas spirit. I saw a little girl repeatedly requesting her mother to buy her a baby doll with diaper but the mother simply couldn’t afford. I offered to buy the toy then gave it to the little girl as my Christmas gift to her. You could never imagine the expression of joy by both mother and child.
To the old man who used to sweep-clean the Church plaza I gave old T-shirts and cash while to his grandchild I offered a wallet with crispy bills. It was his first wallet and he could not hide his great happiness. As her most valuable gift to a vegetable vendor at the side of the road, what cheered her heart no end was a copy of her toothless picture that I took earlier near my Christmas tree. She pressed it over her heart as she considered it the most valuable gift ever.
A folded paper Peacock did the Christmas magic to a poor little girl that I met in a hospital. Same magic was created by a colorful yoyo received by an orphaned boy after opening his gift from a raffle package that he got.
There are hundred ways to express Christmas in simple manner, for Christmas is Peace and Love incarnate. Anyway we express Peace and Love to anyone we are sharing Jesus Himself. Jesus is the reality of Christmas. To many Christmas is but a day. Mine is not that way.
Similarly New Year represents Happiness and Prosperity. Let us all think of ways to express Happiness and Prosperity to everyone this coming year 2010. If many shall be practicing this, the whole year shall be Happy and Prosperous.
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If everybody would care to share, what a difference it could make to this world.
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