just a couple more weeks and it's Christmas.
today, i am tasked to put up the decorations inside and outside the house.
yesterday, i had the chance to spend time in one of the malls near my place. and you can smell the scent of christmas in the air... in the past, i would get a bit sad whenever i would hear both happy and sad christmas tunes being played.
yesterday, it was different. there was a certain joy, an excitement, a joyful anticipation for something. something is coming. something bigger, something better, something brighter.
indeed, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
after having that good feeling inside me, i went to the toys section of the store. and i was thinking... this is heaven for children... indeed, Christmas is for children... do you remember what you wanted for christmas when you were a kid? i don't... but what i remember is the fascination i have had when all the lights were up and all the christmas decors were brought out of the boxes... we had christmas polar bears as white as snow, one even had a red heart with a bulb in it that lit up each time it was pressed. it also served as button so a christmas tune would play as the bulb lit up. we had papier mache figures of choirboys placed on the clavinova...and of course, we put up the christmas tree... and strategically set up the images for the Nativity scene, which gave me a different feeling each time i looked at it.
let everyday be a lot like Christmas...
we wont stay as children forever... at a certain point, we all have to grow up.. we should grow up... but let us not lose the child within us, let us not lose the little boy or little girl in our hearts.. seeing things with the eyes of a child, feeling things with the heart of a child will allow us to go back to the core of who we are and share the gift of who we are to those we encounter...
may our Christmas go beyond the toys and fancy decors, may our Christmas be a Christmas of presence, a journey of joy, a gift of love =)
