月曜日, 12月 26, 2005
A Different Kind Of Christmas
This was not the first Christmas I spent alone but this felt different. I had a different kind of Christmas this year. I mostly slept, the weather was too cold I didn't dare go out. I was too tired and the one thing I really needed was rest. In between sleeping I would turn on my TV and flip over the pages of my PMP reviewer. At one point I contemplated on going to a ski resort, but "NO", I've decided to impose self-discipline, I had to focus on my review. I don't want to fail because I don't want to do this torturous reviews over again.
I cooked myself pasta for Christmas dinner as I watched the 4-hour Christmas musical special on TV. My YM started to pop Merry Christmas messages. At about midnight I quietly had my dinner and I thanked God for all the blessings I received this year. The great people I knew this year, the stupor I've done, all of it put a smile on my face. I only had one gift this year. I didn't go Christmas shopping mostly because I'm too tired. But I realized that one gift is enough. I realized that all those YM messages were enough. I realized that I am so blessed to live inside a warm, homey shelter blessed with good food on my table. I realized that I'm blessed to be healthy and I have everything I need. I also realized that some people needs to fight for survival, for a place just to warm their cold bodies in this season.
Christmas is not about twinkling lights. It is not about exchanging gifts. It is not about dining at the most expensive restaurants, or having festive Noche Buenas. It is about the birth of Christ, the highest expression of selflessness. It is about Him telling us that He came to world to carry our crosses because He loves all of us. It is about Him showing us that the greatest of miracles spring from love. Christmas is about miracles and love and compassion. Every Christmas should be a reminder that we are all blessed and we should pay this blessing forward to those whose eyes are too misty to see miracles.
I have been praying for miracles but now I realized that I have them all along inside of me, unopened gifts from God.
# posted by Unknown : 12:12 午前
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