Teacher's teacher

All the christmas carols are already being sung; the christmas lights glitter as they are draped on trees, buildings, billboards and just about every place and corner; people from every walk of life try to go on buying for gifts. These scenarios are indeed happenning for Christmas, after all is four (4) days away yet for majority Christmas, due to all the crises: death, scandals, unemployment, climate change, extreme poverty, fire, volcanic eruption - is miles and miles away.

There is then a need to go inward and find in one's faith, the reason for christmas which is more spiritual than material. This puts in proper perspective all the usual treats we concoct - that delicious foods, high-priced get-ups do not make christmas. Amidst death, scandals, unemployment, climate change, extreme poverty, fire, volcanic eruption there remains our families, our loved ones with whom we keep on getting the reason for going and moving on. We complain less and savor more the presence of every one in the family.

So now, we listen to the carols and we sing with it; we put some christmas lights outside our humble abode and smile; we wrap gifts which can be as simple or as expensive as you like for as long as it is sincerely given then christmas can happen four days from now or everyday of our lives. Love, after all, is not determined by the event but by each one of us who has endless supply of affection, care, concern, empathy, determination and love.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year today, four days from now then to a new year, 2010!