Straight Talk By Nimfa Estrellado December 21, 2019 Christmas is a blessed time and one when we honor the birth of our Savior. We of...
By Nimfa Estrellado
December 21, 2019
Christmas is a blessed time and one when we honor the birth of our Savior. We often have warm fuzzy feelings when we look at the nativity scene. I think we need to take a closer look. Mary, the mother of Jesus, gave birth in a cave with animals all around her and no privacy. Can you imagine the smell in the cave? She certainly did not have any drugs to relieve the pain of childbirth. Some Bible scholars believe Mary was 14 years old. Picture being 14 and giving birth in a cave. All she had was Joseph to be with her, no mother or sisters to comfort her. She was very alone. Yet, she was not alone, God was with her.
Christmas is a much-awaited festival all around the world. Exchanging gifts is exciting for all. Christmas parties involve a lot of dancing, singing and merry-making. Christmas is a time of expectation and excitement that comes with it. Not only small children love it. This is the only day in the year when people should forgive and forget everything wrong, show each other love symbolized by breaking of the Christmas wafer. Christmas Evening is the most special day of all Christmas! Why?
Come December and people all around the world begin to make preparations for Christmas celebrations. The entire month brings along the spirit of festivities and celebrations all around. The markets and malls are busy offering goodies to their customers, hotels and restaurants are busy updating their menu to suit the festive season and homes are busy with a whole lot of activities. Parties, get-togethers, picnics are held all around the world. People fly off to an exotic location or take Christmas cruise. Christmas celebration world-wide is grand and done with much cheer. There are a host of theme parties as well.
I believe that Christmas are the most special holidays in the year. There is no other in the whole world. Jesus Christ is being born and the world is happy. But what is more exciting, birthday or a day before it, when everything is about to change and happen once again, with new hope, stronger believe? In my opinion this waiting has more advantages. It’s the first time you can feel the spirit of Christmas!
On Christmas evening you start the celebration and savouring the earlier work. Sit and relax. Feel the spirit of being together with family, see the smile on the face of your children when unpacking first presents and almost touch a mystical atmosphere that is characteristic for Christmas Eve supper or Noche Buena.
The lesson I think we can learn from taking a different look at the Christmas story is this; God is always with us no matter what. We can trust him to provide and take care of us now and in the future. He may not take care of us the way we expect, but he will provide and it will be best. I pray you trust God this Christmas season for every area of your life and celebrate the gift of our Savior and Redeemer.
I think it is increasingly hard to remind and keep in the forefront of our children’s minds the true meaning of Christmas. Find some small way to reach out to others in your community or church to show God’s love. You can buy toys for a family that does not have much for Christmas. We have done outreach program with Tuklas Tayabas Historical Society on December 21, 2019 for Aeta Community and children love it. May our children learn from us through our actions and word the true meaning of Christmas.
Christmas is a much-awaited festival all around the world. Exchanging gifts is exciting for all. Christmas parties involve a lot of dancing, singing and merry-making. Christmas is a time of expectation and excitement that comes with it. Not only small children love it. This is the only day in the year when people should forgive and forget everything wrong, show each other love symbolized by breaking of the Christmas wafer. Christmas Evening is the most special day of all Christmas! Why?
Come December and people all around the world begin to make preparations for Christmas celebrations. The entire month brings along the spirit of festivities and celebrations all around. The markets and malls are busy offering goodies to their customers, hotels and restaurants are busy updating their menu to suit the festive season and homes are busy with a whole lot of activities. Parties, get-togethers, picnics are held all around the world. People fly off to an exotic location or take Christmas cruise. Christmas celebration world-wide is grand and done with much cheer. There are a host of theme parties as well.
I believe that Christmas are the most special holidays in the year. There is no other in the whole world. Jesus Christ is being born and the world is happy. But what is more exciting, birthday or a day before it, when everything is about to change and happen once again, with new hope, stronger believe? In my opinion this waiting has more advantages. It’s the first time you can feel the spirit of Christmas!
On Christmas evening you start the celebration and savouring the earlier work. Sit and relax. Feel the spirit of being together with family, see the smile on the face of your children when unpacking first presents and almost touch a mystical atmosphere that is characteristic for Christmas Eve supper or Noche Buena.
The lesson I think we can learn from taking a different look at the Christmas story is this; God is always with us no matter what. We can trust him to provide and take care of us now and in the future. He may not take care of us the way we expect, but he will provide and it will be best. I pray you trust God this Christmas season for every area of your life and celebrate the gift of our Savior and Redeemer.
I think it is increasingly hard to remind and keep in the forefront of our children’s minds the true meaning of Christmas. Find some small way to reach out to others in your community or church to show God’s love. You can buy toys for a family that does not have much for Christmas. We have done outreach program with Tuklas Tayabas Historical Society on December 21, 2019 for Aeta Community and children love it. May our children learn from us through our actions and word the true meaning of Christmas.
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