Weekly Word from the Wisdom Walk
Yesterday I did not feel like I had anything specific to say so I held off posting. While Mom and I were out shopping, we started talking about Christmas memories. This morning, without knowing about yesterday's conversation, my husband, pulled out a list he had made and started talking about memories of Christmas.
So here are a few things. To some this will be new but a few will doubtless identify.
We remember Christmas as the time for road work - clearing the drains and cutting back the trees. This meant quick cash for those who would have had very little Christmas money otherwise. It meant weeding the yard, whitewashing the house, the gate, and everything that can possibly hold " white lime." It meant filling the mattress with new grass, music everywhere, radio competitions for various prizes, doing the walkabout and eating at the neighbors (not allowed at other times). Its the Christmas breeze, sweet-potato pudding, duck-bread, grandmarket, johncanoo dancers, blossoming sugarcane fields (called cane flags) and the absence of fear as we simply had a great time.
We missed nothing because of not knowing we should have had more. Most of us had no idea we were poor! Truth be told, then, we were a lot closer to peace on earth and goodwill to all men/ people than we are today. Christmas Sunday we would show up to church in our finery, the new clothes we received as Christmas gifts. How far we have come!
As many of us celebrate our abundance and the excitement of giving and receiving, let's also remember our past with a deep sense of gratitude. Most of all, let us treasure the Greatest Gift: Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!
Yesterday I did not feel like I had anything specific to say so I held off posting. While Mom and I were out shopping, we started talking about Christmas memories. This morning, without knowing about yesterday's conversation, my husband, pulled out a list he had made and started talking about memories of Christmas.
So here are a few things. To some this will be new but a few will doubtless identify.
We remember Christmas as the time for road work - clearing the drains and cutting back the trees. This meant quick cash for those who would have had very little Christmas money otherwise. It meant weeding the yard, whitewashing the house, the gate, and everything that can possibly hold " white lime." It meant filling the mattress with new grass, music everywhere, radio competitions for various prizes, doing the walkabout and eating at the neighbors (not allowed at other times). Its the Christmas breeze, sweet-potato pudding, duck-bread, grandmarket, johncanoo dancers, blossoming sugarcane fields (called cane flags) and the absence of fear as we simply had a great time.
We missed nothing because of not knowing we should have had more. Most of us had no idea we were poor! Truth be told, then, we were a lot closer to peace on earth and goodwill to all men/ people than we are today. Christmas Sunday we would show up to church in our finery, the new clothes we received as Christmas gifts. How far we have come!
As many of us celebrate our abundance and the excitement of giving and receiving, let's also remember our past with a deep sense of gratitude. Most of all, let us treasure the Greatest Gift: Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!
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