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Holiday Gifts

The "Holiday" of Christmas has been historically the retail boon for our post industrial economy. It has not always been so. In decades past it was a celebration of a free gift from God of a Savior who loves us, and brought a way of life that leads to peace. The gift was celebrated with "Mass" or a Holy congregation, hence CHRIST MASS. Lore developed many ways to show "The GIFT" in physical forms and tangible objects mostly to help Children to understand "The Gift". The tradition came to overwhelm the truth.
The celebration has been plagued with two great transitions, the spiritual into the physical and faith to tradition, which combined to give us the celebration of "pseudo sanctified consumerism" and a shift away from faith in the grace of the Divine.
 If we look back to the origin of the story in Luke chapter two we see "The gift" is referred to as Immanuel...that is "God with us", or Jesus. Understanding this should initiate a shift to "Be with" people to celebrate a divine gift instead of sending a less than complete representation of our esteem for the recipient.
So, instead of buying some plastic prepackaged china made non durable good...bake some healthy bread or organic sweets and share the afternoon drinking fair trade coffee with someone whom your heart sees as valuable. Show them they are important by spending TIME with them. If that would happen humanity may actually increase in Peace, the amount of broken plastic that ends up in the land fill would be reduced. Be creative. Give a gift of a RELATIONAL experience, which is a gift.
BE THE CHANGE.On Umbra on holiday shopping posted 1 year ago 4 Responses