CHRISTmUS

wow! barely 2 days before the so called Christmas. and i'm not so eager to come home. ;-( first time to feel it this way after 32 years. so much blessings came and so many gifts received the whole year and i'm spent out. would like to give everyone a gift if only i can but financially broke. ;-( maybe i give myself instead. maybe this is the best gift ever that i can give. a sincere and costless smile. then maybe with this i can find the joy of christmas and would finally be excited to come home even penniless! maybe i am being called to reconsider what really matters to me. maybe christmas is not at all only about gift-giving but making memories with the people i love and sharing laughters together. maybe i am just being very positive and optimistic. but isn't life all about choices? if so, then i chose to feel good, feel rich, and feel loved. then i came across this message below of Neale on his blog. wow! impeccable timing indeed. when i find myself heading for home before christmas, then maybe i chose to be home; if not, maybe i chose to hibernate for a change. hahahahahahaha happy holy days! ;-)

this is the meaning of Christmas.
That... that which is Christed is born in all of us.
Lives in all of us.
IS all of us.
We simply do not remember this.
And so, Christmas was created to remind us.

Christmas, it turns out, is not about a particular religion, but about all religions. It is not about a particular person, but about all persons.

It does not matter whether you are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Jew, Baptist or Buddhist.
Or none of the above.

When you give birth to the lord within you, you give life to a wonder and a majesty and a wisdom and a love that can flow from you to all the world, and change the world forever.

Isn't this the Christmas Story?

And when we live this story as our story, are our lives not renewed, our separated selves made whole?

Indeed.

Our souls are stirred, our hearts are filled. And then it is we who bring...joy to the world.

The gift of Christmas is us, fully expressed and fully realized. It is us -- completely willing and totally ready -- to love without condition, to give without restriction, to share without limitation, to create without fear, to celebrate ourselves without shame or embarrassment.

It is us, choosing to forgive without hesitation, to help without being asked, to rush in where angels fear to tread. Indeed, to lead the way for angels.

Ah, to lead the way for angels. That's why we're here. That's why we've come to the Earth. To be a herald!

Hark! The herald, angels sing. Glory to the newborn king.

At this moment we can give birth to the royalty within us...the royalty that we are in God's eyes.
someone once said...if you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.