It’s Christmas time
By Jenalyn Lopez
A FEW more days and I’ll be home for Christmas. While I’m counting the days, I feel so excited to see my family once again. I can still remember how we spent the Christmas Eve mass together last year, thanking God for giving us guidance, for making our family whole all throughout these years.
After mass, we were all excited to go home so we could open our gifts waiting under our Christmas tree. We opened the gifts, took pictures and laughing together! After opening the gifts, it was time to eat our Noche Buena, yahoo!
With all these things in mind, I smiled. I felt grateful and blessed for I may not have all the wonderful things that this life could offer but I can say I have all the most wonderful things in this life that not everybody
have. I have my faith which gives me the zeal to learn life’s lesson that
He is giving me through difficulties. I have a family with whom I can always share my failures and successes. Last but not the least, I have
great friends who care for me and love me in spite of my shortcomings. And
one of the things that I won’t forget during this season is the text message I received two days before Christmas from my former colleague a few years ago. He said , “But Jen, I’ve been a good provider.” I answered him ,”We may have been a good provider, but that doesn’t mean that we have been good children.”
Clever as he was, he got my message across. He replied and said, “I’ll say sorry to them and do what is right.”
After the Christmas Eve mass I received another text message from my friend saying, “this Christmas is a very special day for me, thanks for what you have said. ”
As I thought about all these things, I told myself that when the time comes that I will be blessed with a family of my own, I will tell my children that Christmas is not about how many toys or gifts they receive but how many gifts they share with others.
Christmas is not about all the sumptuous food on the table for Noche Buena but more importantly, it’s about the family that gather together praying over the meals they will share during Noche Buena.
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