Arquivo para December 24th, 2024
Christmas is still a universal celebration
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Dec
Although of the 195 countries in the world,
there are 150 that officially celebrate it, in many of these where it is not official, like Uruguay for example, there are families and religious services that remember the date.
It is true that we are in a difficult time with threats of world wars, social and political crises clearly spread across the globe and many innocent people facing deprivation of freedom and justice, increasingly political and ideological, but as we pointed out in the previous post, it is still Christmas for those who desire and live true and eternal peace.
Those who still position themselves in climates of hatred and exclusion are not without evidence of this lack of peace within themselves, of people who have distanced themselves or been distanced by the force of some disaffection, but even among the excluded, those who don’t hold sorrows and grudges are at peace and can enjoy moments of peace and festivities, not festivities of abundance but of the joy and rest that peace brings us.
It is this feeling that I wish everyone I meet and live with during the year, and to those who don’t understand us we must still wish for peace, the peace that every human being needs.
There is no shortage of Herods who want innocent people to die, no shortage of Pharisees and zealots willing to do anything for a biased and unspiritual worldview, no shortage of those who think of Christmas as consumption and abundance, but there is also no shortage of true Christians who celebrate the birth of their Savior, even though he was deprived of an inn, found shelter in a humble manger and was worshipped there by shepherds and kings from the east.
So it’s always surprising that God is present among those who need a little joy, among humble people who are happy to have enough to live on and celebrate.
I hope that this spirit of a truly simple and humble Christmas brings peace to everyone, and I especially wish those who suffer the horrors of war a moment of happiness and peace.
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
