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Did you miss the Meaning of the Season?

Ok, so Christmas is officially over. How did you celebrate it? Not everybody had family or friends to go through the Christmas season with and because of our fast culture I am beginning to feel that some of us actually missed the true spirit or meaning of the season. The term drive-through Christmas is coming to me right now, a great way to take the air out of the energy that Christmas holds for some people. Now, the term jaded is coming to me right now and the last thing I want to do is create a bleak picture of how Christmas should have been. To get sentimental, would be to get emotional, but there is nothing wrong with having a healthy emotional life. What makes us humans are our emotions, and the Creator want us to have healthy emotions. What happens when people shut down their happiness to please others, or to not cause conflict in the family, is that they seem strange to others in the family because what makes one person happy, really annoys another. Christmas is a season of goodwill, but not everybody is in a happy place in their lives so when they come into contact with someone who is in a good place in their lives, their goal can be to make the happy person unhappy!

The American dream, which by the way I am Canadian, is the pursuit of happiness, but what do you do with people who have lost their joy and happiness and you make them miserable because you are making good choices in your life still? The Beatles had a song called "Let it Be" but what if they are not letting you be. What if that person enjoys seeing people suffer, well then there is something wrong with that person. Heaven will be a place where only believers will be, you can't be an unbeliever and be in Heaven! A lot of people these days are choosing to abandon their belief in God and their belief in the Heaven the Bible talks about. They have settled for an unhappy eternity. Why? Because they choose to be unhappy now. My guru once said a sad saint is a sad saint, and that's what you are if you think you are on your way to Heaven.

Journey had a song called "Don't stop Believing" and there are millions in this earth right now who are mocking Christianity and trying to make the believers un-believers. This is the goal of the devil and his fallen angels, they want to destroy the faith of the pure in heart, they want to see all the good people end up in hell. And if they can't send you there in this life, they will try to impose their small mindedness on you and they will put God in their "small minded box" and crush the hopes of people of goodwill. So, is there a solution to people like this? Yes, don't become like them, and if you are making someone's life unlivable then repent. Just because poor people get older doesn't mean that the natural laws of the universe and love stop. You have to have a big mind and a big faith to see Heaven in Eternity and now. So, did you miss the meaning of the season? If you did, you are not alone, but don't stay there. Whatever comes your way, it really makes the devil mad when you have hope and love and forgive those people who have lost their hope and are trying to make you loose yours. This is Mike.

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