Christmas is now approaching but for me it’s like a normal day. Every Christmas in my life I’ts like a nightmare.
I personally always feared Christmas. As a teenager I hated the questions of ‘what are you doing for Christmas?’ and ‘how was your Christmas?’ I still do.
The list of negatives is generally appealing small and not much can surpass without both parents so I usually take the rest of the indication that life throws at me with relative ease and try to be positive where I can.
Christmas as we rejoice the birthday of Jesus, we can give gifts to him. We can’t give gifts of gold, frankincense, love, and myrrh like the wise sons did, but we can give another type of gift. We give a gift to Jesus when we try to be like him. We are being like Jesus when we are thinking.
“This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was promised to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a good man and did not want to expose her to community disgrace, he had in mind to split her quietly.
But after he had reflected this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus since he will save his people from their sins.
As hard as Christmas can be, people who have no family loved one must try to keep celebrations simple and to keep busy, Dowling urged.
Try and keep things as simple as imaginable because the first Christmas is really very, very hard. You’ve got to think of yourself and if you can’t face people, get somebody close to you to act as a bodyguard for you.
Basically, some relations can say the wrong things but again you need to kind of think of yourself. If there’s someone that’s helping you and you know will provide some support, get them to tell others how you’re feeling, how things are.
He advised that if those grieving are going to have friends or family visiting to keep them short and to “pace yourself”.
“Your liveliness is at rock bottom in the all charismas day. You’re actually and rationally drained, it’s upset that you’re going finished.”
Dowling did, however, note the importance of getting out of bed on Christmas morning and keeping busy.
“It’s significant that you actually get up in the morning, get your breakfast, get organized and do something over Christmas, it’s important to do something.”
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