Deflection

Over 2,000 years ago last night, the Christ Child was born, and today we celebrate his birth. It is a time of new beginnings. As with any child, they start out an infants and grow into young adults. The caring and nurturing a child into an adult is never easy and the same can be said about the child learning to be an adult. Figuratively this is the same for us. Today marks a time of new beginning for us in our growth to be mature adults. Just as gaining the responsibility for new child, this is the time for our new thoughts and feelings are to start growing. Since we are caring for our new thoughts and feelings, we must reflect on the past and present to the correct nurturing of these new values.

As we study the Bible, there is not much written about Jesus’s childhood, other than when he was old enough to go to the synagogue and listen to the priest and his parents thought that he was lost. By the time that he was a young adult, there is plenty written about his first teachings. As people started to listen to his teachings, there was ambivalence, since they did not understand what he was teaching, and he was put to death because of the ambivalence. As for people to understand Jesus’s ambivalence, it took about 70 years to write the books of the Bible. As with all things that are new to understand, it takes time for new ideas to sink into the minds of people.

If we take the time today to ponder our thoughts and feelings of the world that we are living, we should think of new thoughts and feelings that will make our life better in the future. We know that these thought will be tough to nurture, but the cost of struggling through these new thoughts will be worth the time and energy that it takes to make improvements in our lives. However, since we have had the time to live for many years, we know that we must reflect back on our past thoughts and feelings to nurture these new values. Without taking the time to reflect on our past, our feelings and thought get caught up in a vortex, with these values being repeated over and over again. The best path for these new thoughts and feelings is to take life one step at a time and understand that there will be difficult issues that have to be dealt along the way.

The commercialization of Christmas is sad. As a child grows up, it is about the gifts that they receive regarding the celebration of the Christ Child. It is unfortunate that people have lost focus on the fact that we are to celebrate our new thoughts and feelings for the future. When a Christian gets frustrated with Christmas, it is because Christmas has lost focus of the brith of the Christ Child. From before Halloween to Christmas Day, every retailer is pushing sales and every building is playing Christmas Carols. It gets to be over done for those that understand the birth of the Christ Child. As for some people, they only buy the things that they need once a year, during the month of December, and that is a long ways away from the birth of the Christ Child. Since there is money to be made during the month of December, the retailers are not going to change their practices.

Now comes to the rude awakening. In accordance with the calendar, the Christ Child dies in about four months from now, at Easter. So, if we look at the calendar, our new thoughts and feelings are to be completed in four months. Not quite so fast. These are life long values that are to take place. Okay, I understand that I am a deep thinker, but I am also alone and lonely, so I have a chance to think deeper about these issues than most people do over time. But, if people would take sometime to reflect on their lives, they would find that life is simpler and easier.

I will everyone a Merry Christmas.

Roger