I will celebrate Christmas in my heart,
and I will keep the spirit all year round.

A period of Festivities or...
A very sad month for some people?...

Christmas traditions are for the most part reminescence of childhood memories at our grand parent's house, usually.  In our younger years, during this season, it was a time of great joy, of festivities with members of our family we did not see too often, good food, simple presents, a simple life indeed...
 
 


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There is always people who are living this period of the year very alone.
Are we thinking about these lonely people??...
Who are they???...
Where are they???...
What are they doing???...

         They make a good part of the lonely people at this time of the year.

One does not have the time or does not take the time to think about these people, all busy looking for the perfect gift to give a loved one, or busy in the kitchen preparing a meal for the family gatherings.

        Why this frenzy in November and December?...
Did you seriously wonder why?
Is it to do like everybody else?...

Then why not celebrate Christmas all year round, and be nice to everybody you meet.
I could mention all the qualities of a loving person, devoted, spiritual, easy going...
Just think about that...

The loneliness a person experience at this time is very real for him or her. The rate of         suicide proves it. The sadness and despair of some of these people can bring many emotional and social uneasiness.  A lot of people fall prey to despair and commit suicide.  If only there was only one person going to see them, maybe they would reconsider....

To prove this point, here is a story that really hit my heart.  This lonely man can give us a lesson.  Come and read this:
 

Television to die for...
A dead German sat in front of his television set for five years, the lights on his Christmas tree flashing beside him, and none of his neighbours noticed.

"Someone said once that he had gone off to a home, I didn't ask any more," said Monika Majarres, who lived in the same Hamburg block of flats as Wolfgang Dircks, a divorced, disabled loner who died in 1993, aged 43.

Other tenants in the 18-flat block minded their own business.  Bild newspaper said on Thursday the dead man's letter box, which might have raised the alarm when it overflowed, had been emptied every now and then, though no one knows by whom.
The landlords came knocking only after the bank account from which Dirck's rent and bills were paid ran dry.

Beside the broken television set and the still twinkling tree they found his skeleton — his TV listings magazine still on his lap and open on the page for Dec. 5, 1993.

Reuters -- Bonn.  Windsor Star, November 20, 1998



If
you knew
what a fine word, a
helping hand, a word of comfort,
can bring to a friend, to a neighbor,
to a person alone in the world,
why not extend a friendly hand to him or her??
Your presence in the life of these same people
will be like a ray of sunshine in the cold of their loneliness.
Perhaps the human kindness that you would give to these people
will be enough to prevent the too frequent drama in
this Christmas season to repeat itself this year.

Give a little of your time to bring some comfort to the lonely people.

Send this page to all your friends to keep the
flame of friendship going in this period of the year.



Links to traditional Christmas season:

Giving of Ourselves
Last Farewell
Loneliness End
How to overcome Loneliness
Bible Help to Overcome Loneliness!
Tears of Loneliness



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