Loveing the Christmas for the fist time in a long, sucks not having dad around for it, but hey its still Christmas and it will be so long after I am gone too.
Presents are good and I gave and got a few, but the most important thing is to remember what this day is all about, Christ. That is the greatest gift of all, for someone to give their lives for you. Christ is the one thing that I am most grateful for. God came to earth in the form of a man and laid down his life so our wrongs could be wiped away as clean and as white as a winter wonderland snow, beautiful isn't it. No matter what happens, we always have that and that is something to be joyful and thankful for, I know that I am. With so much commercialization it's easy to forget what this holiday is all about. I guess a reminder of that truth has probably been worn out and commercialized in of its self but it is valid non the less.
I didn't have much to spend or give this year but I hope that I put a few more dollars in the salvation army pale than I did last year while out shopping, I hope that I thought of those that have less than I a little more than I did last year, and I hope that I was a littler more forgiving, compassionate, and empathetic towards my fellow man than I was last year. Every year should be a step forward not backwards so I and everyone else can be more compassionate, loving, forgiving and kind to our neighbors when we reflect back again to this time again next year, for who is your neighbor and who is your bother, why everyone.
