It is cold windy and it is reminder that it is winter and not the false spring we have been enjoying. It is like forgetting one's age and overdoing an activity and the aches telling the body "hey hold on here." I need go out before the promised rain comes. Christmas small presents need to be bought. Not much monetary value but reminding people I care is important to me.
Christmas has always been for me a time of family and friends--- a time of good memories and making new memories. It is a time for meditation and reflection on the good things the world we live and of the common humanity of all creeds and races. The word races bothers me if the truth is spoken, Skin color should not classify us. A person's actions define him not his skin color.
Christmas is a time of faith but not While Christianity has named this period, we need to remember other faiths celebrate holidays of importance at this time of year---Jewish festival of lights, Kwanzaa and others. This year I have been saddened by the sternest of "Christians" who forget that Christ was a swarthy middle eastern man who looked like many of a faith now beginning demonized by narrow-minded people. Christ held his arms open to all men and accepted all. This new line of thinking, this idea of being the chosen brings images of ovens in prison camps and women made to be slaves to the men in their lives with no rights to property etc. It is a faith of exclusion and judgement: it is not the Fait that Jesus of Nazareth preached. I fear many of our leaders will not pass the eye of the needle test when their time comes.
But enough said this morning before i really get on my soap box as it is Christmas and I want it to be Christmas that Christ would be happy with when he watches us celebrate his holiday.
Peace and live my readers.
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