The Holiday Season is here. Its drinks, food, reunions, gifts, vacations and stuff for lots of people!
For me its a time off and a time to do the things I like: watching TV, playing RO, reading books I like (and there are lots of them), meeting up with old friends and just staying home.
Its my thirtieth Christmas in this planet and it seems that how I perceive it has changed a lot. When I was a kid it was just simple fun, toys and candies. Now its different-an indicator of how much time has passed and how many seasons of cold nights have gone by.
It is still for me a religious event, a day I really think a lot about my faith and how I am living up to it. The Nazarene was here two thousand years ago, and I must admit He has had an impact on many. Its His birth that changed the way we count the years, a religion was established in His name.
My faith and its relation to the Son of God is of utmost matter to me. I may have beliefs that are like unorthodox at times but I am pretty much a Christian. My life, my example I admit can't be a great message of my faith. Mahatma Gandhi could plainly say that. I couldn't.
It's because of the fact that despite the injunctions and the rich provision of grace from above that I fail to live consistently with my Reformed faith. I swear sometimes, if not verbal, at least mental. I battle with lust everyday like any other man. At times I think of how much my life has been an example to others, of how I have been a cause of stumbling or encouragement.
Its hard but with His grace I hope that this Season I may dwell more on His rich love and mercy to live up to the best I could.
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise; Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse, and stuff’d with the stuff that is fine; One of the Great Nation, the nation of many nations, the smallest the same, and the largest the same - Walt Whitman
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