My wish for you this holiday season is the gift of “belief”. Belief is the most human part of us, for it takes the child within us to feel its joy. Travel back with me to a time when you felt the comfort and warmth of your family and the love that surrounded you.
Some of you had the great good fortune to have a Mother and Father to bring you into this world and to envelope you in their love. For you, the journey to a place of joy will be less of a challenge than others. Many of us were born into another kind of home and a different sense of family. Yet when we return in our minds to those simpler years, we can still feel how those around us cared about us and allow that sense of love to pool within us and warm our hearts, if we can only just remember, and we can only just believe.
Life has a way of wearing us down and the more years that separate us from our childhood, the more it seems to harden our hearts and separate us from our innocence. The further that we travel in our hearts and our minds from that time, has more to do with our aging process than the chronological years marked upon the calendars of our lives.
If only we could unburden ourselves of those years and remember what it felt like, once again to believe in Santa Clause and all that he stood for such as Christmas joy and showing kindness to others. Lending a helping hand to those not as fortunate as ourselves, even simply exchanging a holiday greeting…and meaning it , is part of belief.
Belief is what changes our world and makes it a better place to live. Belief in friendship and the bonds of trust that forges it together. Belief in heroes, be they real and protect us in far off lands or only live within our minds and in the confines of our imaginations. Belief in love, the most powerful of all, both in the romantic sense and the more esoteric.
Perhaps I might be stretching my wish list this year but I can’t help but to think that it’s worth it. I wish that you believe that life is worth living and worth living well not just in the physical sense but in the spiritual sense as well. I wish that you believe that you can change the lives of others by holding out your hand, your mind and your heart. And I wish that you believe you can change the world, one life at a time through your smile, your mind, your compassion and your heart. That is my holiday wish.
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