"Love all, Spend less, Give more"
Everyone wants Christmas to be meaningful. Christmas is definitely the season for gifts and shopping. During Christmas, a lot of people go to malls to buy various gifts to be given to their friends and loved ones. People just need to spend more during Christmas season. The effect? --traffic jams, growing credit cards, debts, lots of to-do lists, etc.
Too much materialism in the world has diminished the true essence of Christmas: that of the coming of God our Father's son, Jesus Christ, into our world to save it from sinfulness and shame. Christmas has been trivialized into Santa Claus, his reindeer, Christmas lights and trees and toys and goodies to bring cheer to human kind on this festive holiday season.
As we celebrate Christmas in the relative comfort of our homes, let us not forget our brothers and sisters deep in misery over the loss of loved ones in battle; in accident; illness or crime; those languishing in prison; those with barely anything on their table to fondly remember the passing of this happy day and our fellow Filipinos abroad who have to toil and labor this Christmas.
Though we may not all have the resources to share with our less fortunate brothers and sisters, let us remember them in our prayers and masses this Christmas and let us extend little acts of kindness that will help them feel loved and cared for in this very important Christian celebration. For after all, we are God's people and our Father in Heaven looks at all of us equally.
The true essence of Christmas relies not on the gifts which commands us to spend more but on the love and unity that each one should build. Spend less to gifts and more on relationships!
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