Spread Christmas Love the Entire Year – to All!
During the Season of Advent – we are in preparation mode. Waiting for the arrival of our savior.
We are given four weeks to guide us along our path – Peace, Joy, Hope, and Love; each week we are bathed in prayer and song. As we journey closer to the birth of the Christ Child we can feel each of these emotions building on top of the next.
The most important one of all?
Love.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Now, I do realize that this article is being published in July, but if you could please hang on I promise you it will be worth it!
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day finally arrive and we are filled with an amazing feeling of joy.
We continue to spread that love and peace as we celebrate and move through the Christmas season. Fun fact, the twelve days of Christmas actually begin on December 25th, which then starts the Christmas Season.
Time moves on and eventually, we must return to reality, but as each day passes and we move further away from December 25th that joy we held so dear begins to diminish and our peaceful minds become clouded and distracted with the responsibilities of our grown-up lives.
What has happened to our Christmas Spirit and our hope for love and world peace?!?
Do those hopes and dreams simply get put away until next year? Wrapped up in tissue paper and tucked in with our ornaments and collapsed fake trees?
Love and Loyalty
Each year, when it is time to take down our tree I “force” my family to sit down and read “The Blue Angel Ornament”. And each year I have to hand the book over to my youngest to finish reading because I simply cannot speak, any longer, through my tears.
Here is a little summary.
It was time for the family to take down the tree, put away all of the ornaments, and bring the tree to the town center to be burned.
Oh, the tree was so scared, he had dreamed about being a Christmas tree for so long, but he never knew it was going to end like this!
The little blue angel could see how scared the tree was and decided that she would stay with him.
When it was time, she tucked herself into his branches and allowed herself to be carried away outside to the curb with the tree.
They both enjoyed the crisp beautiful night air and shared the story of their individual journies.
The next evening, they were driven to the town center where they could see the big bonfire ablaze – oh the colors were so glorious!
The Christmas tree shook with fear, and the little blue angel told him not to worry and reminded him that she would be with him the entire time.
The fire eventually died and all that was left was a pile of ashes.
That spring, the bare spot blossomed into an amazing display of violets. They were unlike any violet that had ever bloomed before – they were a beautiful azure blue, the color of the sky on a fresh spring morning. Looking at them made everyone’s heart glow, for each blue flower was an expression of God’s love and a promise kept by the little blue angel.
Richard H. Schneider – The Blue Angle Ornament
That little blue angel so loved and adored that Christmas tree that she sacrificed herself for his comfort and ease.
Maybe you need a little less intense definition of sacrifice?
Something which is given up or lost.
When we willingly give ourselves to friends, family, or even strangers it is a form of sacrifice. We have sacrificed our time, energy, or perhaps even more.
Over the past several months I have been thinking a lot about the special feeling of Christmas Love. How it is a different type of love, it is more intense, and it is easier to spread about. During the Christmas season, we also seem so much nicer to each other – perhaps the children are only concerned about the jolly fella headed down their chimneys, but I think it is much, much more than that!
What if we had the hope and desire to keep spreading this love throughout the entire year and to all humankind?
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:13
A plea for hope:
May each of us find our own way to seek our inner peace and find the light within us and that we grow and yearn to spread that light via love, hope, and joy out into our world.
Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love equal kindness. One way we can spread Christmas love is by spreading kindness.
“Kindness is igniting a light in someone else for no reason other than to watch them enjoy the glow.”
RAK
Be the light
16 You should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:16
However, while being kind to others always remember to be kind to yourself! By loving ourselves, taking care of ourselves, and bringing peace into ourselves we become better equipped to take that light, peace, and love out into the world.
Our own care might consist of:
By fostering and nurturing the emotions of peace, joy, hope, and love within us – we have the capacity to bring these feelings and acts of kindness out into the world.
What is Christmas?
It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal
and that every path may lead to peace.
Agnes M. Pharo
Thank you!
Hopefully, I have inspired you to spread Christmas Love throughout the year and that I have sparked a desire to find inner peace and your inner light.
Frankly, I felt so passionate about this topic that I wrote an eBook, Your Inner Light & Christmas Love, but in all reality – I just wish and yearn for it to come true.
Until next time … Peace and Blessings, Friends!
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