Tree of Light, Gift of Love OR A Feeling for Christmas
It’s easy to get downhearted because Christmas seems to be all about finding money we don’t have for presents, cards, stocking our cupboards with assorted goodies etc.
Then (hopefully) something happens to make us think again and give us (and Christmas) a new lease of life...
Christians celebrates the birth of Jesus. Son of God or no, Jesus was a Man for all Seasons. Whatever our religion or non-religion, should we not always try to celebrate the spirituality we give and take from it in our everyday lives, preferably in a spirit of peace and love, no matter what or where or who?
Some Christians, for example - even clerics - reject gay people (including family members) because they interpret the Bible as telling them to do so. The Bible, perhaps, not Jesus. The God of the Old Testament is all but made redundant by the New. Jesus taught that God is no God of vengeance and intolerance, but the very opposite. If I were a Christian or subscribed to any religion, there is no way I would believe God is a homophobe. Thankfully, for humanity's sake, there are many Christians and other religious-minded people who feel the same.
(to say the least) needles already
even with someone like me,
hardly the smiling face
of joyous festivity!
some sad-looking tinsel
and a lopsided star...
the little tree took on
an positive air of triumph,
I’d much preferred to forget
at this time of year
Copyright R. N. Taber 2004; 2016
Labels: Christmas, culture, differences, equality, human nature, human spirit, life, love, mind-body-spirit, nature, nurture, poetry, relationships, religious festivals. religion, sexuality, society, spirituality
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