The Sixth Day of Christmas.....

The Sixth Day of Christmas - December 30th

The Sixth Day of Christmas is a quiet day in the calendar. If you have not already written your Christmas cards, this would be a good day to do that. Friends who receive a card sent today will be reminded that Christmas continues for twelve days. The next two days could be quite busy with lots of guests. Today would also be a good day to begin preparing some of the refreshments that will be needed on those days.       Twelve Days

In the high Christian sects, this is the Feast of the Holy Family. Of course, it refers to Mary, Joseph and Jesus. But it is also a celebration of family as we know it. Who is in YOUR family? We often think of our blood relatives as family, or those who are brought together by design to create a nuclear family and extended families.

Jesus teaches us to love one another, to treat one another as if we are all family, to go the extra mile, respect and help the stranger, give the extra shirt and feed the hungry, as if that person in front of you IS your family.  Our Father/Mother is God, and we are all brothers and sisters. We belong to a huge family, the family of man. Thank goodness I am not expected to buy Christmas gifts for ALL my family! But I do offer a gift of prayer for every soul, for an awakening of every soul to our true essence and purpose: I am a child of the living God, and I am here to experience the wonders of this dimension for the benefit of  all my family here and in every dimension of creation. Sela.