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Your Christmas Spirit

12/27/2015

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It's an observation that people have different levels of spirit depending on the place they choose to be during the Christmas season. Some people make the most of Christmas everywhere they go and some crave their home environment to fulfill their Christmas spirit. It's the memories of home and the conditioning of the home environment overtime that leaves an individual to feel the spirit of Christmas. The special ornaments from childhood, Mom's home cooking, laughing with cousins over silly things, eating Grandma's famous Christmas cookies, receiving that yearly sweater in a new color. It makes it feel like Christmas and makes the spirit at home.
A person relies on that comfort of Christmas each year, but what happens when your spirit isn't at home and it wonders elsewhere.

Those who have lost family members, experience Christmas outside a materialistic mindset, feel disconnection in spirit, and crave something outside of what they know. Those who feel that religion takes priority over the gifts and finds peace with the tru meaning of Christmas. The spirit of Christmas can be connected with the beauty of ritual, sacrifice, and giving spirit. The Christmas religious meaning celebrated in different cultures is what truly can make a spirit come alive. It's what can make a person come alive, open up their eyes to his beauty, feel authentic generosity rather than forced by culture, and to come closer to Christ.

It's to highlight that the Christmas spirit can come alive outside of home and repetition. A person may not feel like American culture is the home of their Christmas spirit. It may feel like something is missing not being out in a world where Christmas feels so alive.  It does not discredit the beauty of religion anywhere, but it just acknowledges that a spirit can long for somewhere else. A spirit can feel empty without family and find their family in the world. Home can be where the spirit lies or perhaps one doesn't know how a spirit can flourish with a religious touch, new place, new people, and taking a risk to let the Lord in and learn cultures outside our own.

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    Priscilla CL Raj is a Therapist, Missionary, Writer, English Teacher. She is an enthusiast who is passionately purposeful in her life.

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