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The feeling of Christmas

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Yesterday you told me you did not understand what the feeling of Christmas and you preferred the new year because I think about what it referred to Indeed the last twelve months. When you told me these things do not know what to answer immediately, but I was thinking about it and I have something like a response.

Beyond religious or capitalist influences, I think the mythology, ritual and the very spirit of consumerism that accompany this conclusion is shared, in different ways, an underlying idea: the generosity to (re) construct the unit.

"From his fullness we all received, and every loving gift
preparing another.
Through Moses we received Act,
but the truth and the gift of love
reached us through Jesus Christ.

No one has seen God, but God the Son
only released us;
he is in the bosom of the Father
and released us. "(John 1, 1-18)

These are the last two paragraphs of the opening chapter of the Gospel of John. Although he and Marcos did not bother to describe the birth of Jesus, as they do Matthew and Luke, which has in common with the rest of evangelists is the appearance of Jesus as the beginning of a new time, a new message, a New Testament in which God materializes his divinity and shares with the people the wisdom to return to a state of grace with him. Then, Jesus represents the ultimate sacrifice of God for the salvation of man, not only delivers the message, but his own divinity incarnated in a human body.

The Gospels are filled with selfless acts of generosity, from the time that Joseph accepts the son of Mary, though not his, to the crucifixion.

Accordingly, for Christians, Christmas is the time in which God gives himself and is accepted by those who believe in him. And here is another important element in mythology or, if you like Christian tradition: the acceptance the gift. God offers and the man decides whether to take their gifts. In this sense, the birth of Jesus not only implies God's generosity but also human acceptance.

On the other hand, the birth of Jesus establishes the sanctity of the family and institutionalized as containing space of divine grace.

In summary, the feeling of Christmas from mythology or Christian tradition is in the virtue of selfless giving and have the courage enough to accept what is given. If you add it in this celebration emphasizes the importance of family togetherness and other virtues such as forgiveness, that Christmas will become a meeting where those who consider themselves family are willing to forgive the past and give more of themselves to restore unity and perhaps they imagine that once existed between them.

while If so, Christmas became a space for reflection on the past, perhaps far beyond the last twelve months, it appeals to deep-seated feelings that can transport you to happy times or even painful. Perhaps because this is something sad to be alone or lonely on Christmas, maybe that's why Christmas songs are ambiguous, between joyful and melancholy.

I think to some extent, explains the ritual tradition: the preparation in advance of the celebration, family reunion, the proclamation of its importance, the propensity of people to be more sensitive to those he considers closest and other perhaps more specific to each place and person.

"P" she told me that for Christmas was the time when his family put aside their differences to come together, that's the feeling of Christmas for her see his family (including herself) re-united at home.

I'd like to say that this also happens at home, but really, the holidays for us are more times when our mistakes become more evident and are therefore often painful. However, their own festivals then give us space for reconciliation, inconclusive, but in the end reconciliations performed.

This year was different. Things were more quiet, probably because we thought more in the grandfather who left us in our need to do or say that makes us feel good. In any case, what happens is that at times we give our individualities ground to the idea of \u200b\u200bunity that brings Christmas and played in the rituals that accompany it.

About consumerism there is not much to say, rather than the central ritual of Christmas has gone from being the family together around the birth of Jesus to be the meeting of individuals who share objects with symbolic value is directly proportional to its value. But even in this particular subject (almost all expect to receive an object of great monetary value that matches our personal desires) underlies the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing generous with others, to give something that were satisfied, that makes you happy and, to that extent , to make us happy we them with something that our money could buy.

In this case, the generosity is concerned, but is present and has been distorted by consumerism, but stays because it gives legitimacy. The curious thing about this process is that during the celebration of the ritual is to remember that it's not the presents but the family unit, notwithstanding the large sums of money to spend at least imagine the wishes of our loved ones.

Regarding the latter, I think it connects with what I said back line with that Christmas is a space for reflection is not limited the last twelve months, but goes beyond. In the case of this last thought, transcends time and questions the ritual itself, perhaps as a form of act of contrition apparently not foster feelings of guilt for receiving and giving gifts ...

Anyway, I think all this tangle of contradictions and symbolism is roughly what gives the feeling of Christmas, at least for me.

Finally, I would say that Christmas is the celebration of integration and, therefore, involves a conciliatory reflection of the past that it restore ties emotional among people, whereas the new year is the celebration of a new beginning, a short passed away and that we may have learned something.

what do you think?