Do you celebrate Christmas by believing Jesus the Christ was born on a Christmas Day and died for us on an Easter Day? Do you celebrate Christmas by buying gifts/present for your family or loved ones?
Many years ago, for I am a deaf Christain and often celebrated by having a family together, going to the church and opened presents each year. I went to my sister and her family’s place many times or my mother’s home many times. My hearing partner is not Christain BUT deep down in his heart – he is a right person with kind, caring, sharing, respectful and love to me. For the last 9 years (except 3 times visit my old homes), our current house is open to anyone to come and visit us anytime, but each Christmas Day we choose to stay home with our two faithful dogs and not one single-family or person came over to see us on a Christmas Day. That is fine for them. We visited my mother and brothers the next day or a couple days for lunch for my mother live at the beach – roughly 55 minutes one way. We do not buy a lot of presents for our family, including my partner’s son’s young family.
I noticed many people complaining about the cost of the foods, petrol, bills to pay, buying high or reasonable price of the gifts for their children everyday throughout each year. My workplace – it is a Social Service – Methodist City Action under the Methodist Orgainsation, and we have so many low-income persons, solo mother or dad and people with disabilities who come to their cookery class and Mind Gym class.
I work with people with disabilities, including Deaf/Hard of Hearing, advocator for these people and supporting them by doing budgeting and literacy.
Many people do not think about Jesus or The Third Country, where there are thousands of people suffering from poverty, starving – receiving no food aids, even medicines.
Each year I gave out our vegetables and fruits such as feijoas from our garden or jams and chutneys even a cake to the people I supported them and gave to the Christain Food Banks and schools nearby. This is the way Jesus taught me, including my partner who gave away the favourites apricot jams, plum/tomatoes sauces and tomatoes chutneys to his mates at work.
Tomorrow it is a special day – The Third World Day of the Poor.
Jesus was not a rich man, he does not have a job, even a home. Jesus, the Christ Saviour, was born on a Christmas Day to his poor parents living in a stable or nearby cave-house or an inn with a stable. The date 25th may not be accurate because it was not listed in the Bible. In the Early Roman calendar as a holiday 25th December honouring Jesus‘ birthday appears in from 336 A.D.
My faith with Jesus the Christ is always with me each day wherever I go, I work, and I sleep. I learnt a lot about Jesus, his story and his works by spreading his Gospels. We do not have a lot of amounts of money for we do pay the bills, mortgage, rates, petrol and basic essential foods such as butter, milk, BUT we have riches in our hearts all the times. We use our skills to do productive works such as gardening, DIY around the house, budgeting our incomes and teaching other people as mentors so they can learn from us. This is what Jesus telling and sharing his stories with other people. This is God’s work for us to do the work for other people.
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