Someday at Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!!

I carry a heavy heart this year...all of the violence, all of the greed, all of the disregard for human dignity, all of the ways the we've been brainwashed to identify ourselves (by race, by social status, by North, South, East, West, by nationality, by a section of our community...by the country we live in...we are so concerned about WE as AMERICANS or other prospective country.  What about we as PEOPLE with the same heart, the same soul, the same spirit...what about LOVE...the real tie that BINDS us together.

This year, I found myself to be envious of mommies of young children.  Young children who BELIEVE before we tarnish that belief with social stigma and condition.  These beautiful breaths of God who come from the womb of a mother to a world of complete wonder with such innocent curiosity.  Children, whom we witness experience EVERYTHING for the first time and whose pure excitement of it rubs off on all of those who share that experience with them.  

It is no mistake that "Unto us this day, a CHILD is born, and he shall be called Emmanuel."  Why do you think our salvation lay in the heart and soul of this child?  Because that is where it is found in its most pure form.  It is how we ALL come into this world...it is how we ALL forget where we came from...it is why I write this post today with the plea that WE stop categorizing, labeling, fighting, judging, and lending the spirit of hatred, judgement, indifference, and the attitude of superiority our power.  It is not expensive to LOVE.  It is not time consuming and it is NOT hard.  We ARE love...we ARE acceptance, we ARE compassion, we ARE tolerance, we ARE understanding, we ARE at our very core essence the LOVE OF GOD...

My message to you this day would be this:  Children are gifts of God.  If we pay attention, they teach us to view life, people, and moments through a different lens.  They teach us how to live each day to the fullest without worry...without delay.  They teach us how to TREAT other people.  You will learn this the first time your "baby" comes to you with a broken heart because someone's self-interests took precedence over regard for their feelings and their right to be treated with the same respect that he/she treats others.  Unto us EVERY day...a child is born...and within that child is OUR SALVATION.

"The witness has forced himself to testify.  For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow.  He does not want his past to become their future."~Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and author of Night.

God Bless and keep one and all...we belong to one other, PLEASE..let's begin to understand this.

Much love and Merry Christmas
Raina