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Getting ready to give, or already giving?

In talking with a friend the other day about getting ready for Christmas – gift-shopping, cookie-baking, holiday decorating and party preparing – I realized that I should start giving the Christmas-spirit right now. Giving gratitude to all who help, offering a smile, a listening ear – any gift that comes directly from my heart to bless another is the most important gift I can share today.

What is the Christmas spirit and why does it have the powerful effect that it does – on the giver and the receiver? To me, this season represents the acknowledgement of the Christ coming to bless mankind…ushered into human presence with the birth of Jesus. How I – and anyone – honor this momentous gift from Father-Mother God is by living the qualities of the Christ in my human presence: sharing love, joy, peace, and happiness. Expressing this Christ-spirit with others each day is the best preparation for Christmas!

“Happiness is…unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” – Mary Baker Eddy

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Since all mankind is required to share happiness without limit, then happiness must come from something so powerful, so universal that it can touch all mankind at the same time – in unique and diverse and individual ways! To me that source of true happiness, universal and unconditional, must be divine Love. And that happiness and love is already placed in my heart.

This is my Christ-spirit. And I am ready to give it, with love, joy, a smile, a hug, a thank-you. Looks like I am already ready for Christmas!

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“…Immanuel, or ‘God with us,’ – [is] a divine influence ever present in human consciousness…” – Mary Baker Eddy

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Virginia Harris is a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science spiritual healing with an office in Wellesley. She was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s symposium ‘Spirituality & Healing in Medicine’ and today is a public speaker to medical audiences. More from Ginny at www.VirginiaHarris.com.

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