when ppl speak of the holiday spirit is it becuz they truly only feel filled with the warmth of giving for one time a year only to return to their ways after the new year? Why is it only sometimes that we feel the need to give and to share love? i wish we would feel the joy every day. Why do we slip in and out of it?
2006-12-11 06:28:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because life doesn't allow us to have that feeling all the time, and maybe for just a few weeks, days, or even hours we can have few moments of joy to share and behold with our loved one, and we can say we are doing it in the spirit of the season, and the stress of our daily life can take a back seat for just those moment of bliss.
May all you days be filled with joy.
Merry Christmas
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for those who gave me thumb down, I wish you well, and hope you have a wonderful life. Thank you for being so kind and for disagreeing with me, I won't hold it against you. Peace to You ALL.
And for those who gave a thumb up, thank you, you are too kind. Peace, Joy and Happiness to you ALL.
2006-12-11 06:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by Sierra Leone 6 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Individuals give and help others all year round and we have many great charities in the world,but at Christmas it becomes a collective effort and this is not all bad.
There is a beautiful giving side to our nature and like you I wish it would be revealed a lot more but then people live in a modern rat trap and are under enormous pressures just to make a living.
Happy Christmas to you.
2006-12-11 14:35:28 · answer #2 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
""Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian," said G. K. Chesterton. He suggested that Christianity satisfies man's ancestral instinct for being "the right way up" because "by its creed joy becomes something gigantic and sadness something special and small."
Not all will agree with either this claim of Christianity or his definition of joy. By this statement joy is seen as the dominant thesis of Christian faith, while the pagan touches only joy's periphery. Stating it even more graphically Chesterton pictures the unbeliever with "feet dancing upwards in idle ecstasies, while his brain is in the abyss." We find a supporting statement in the Proverbs: "Laughter cannot mask a heavy heart. When the laughter ends, the grief remains."
Certainly, if one is to judge from a large number of morose professing Christians and the vocal claims to joy of the modern pagan, Chesterton claims for both the pagan and the Christian may well seem insupportable. Chesterton may, I believe, be referring to a quality of joy which transcends the pagan's experience. This transcendent and gigantic joy is the heritage of every Christian, in whatever circumstances, and was God's intention for all humanity. The joyless Christian therefore, is either uninformed of his/her inheritance, or distracted from it by lesser pursuits. A Christian without joy is like a clock without hands--hardly typical of the norm!
What, really, is joy? It is perhaps most natural to think of it as an emotion, ranging from merriment to ecstasy, whose opposite is sorrow. However, I would like to focus first and chiefly on joy as a state of mind rather than as an emotion, as perhaps one would discuss a dog without reference to its tail, however vigorously it may wag. While joy certainly does involve emotion, emotion does not define joy, any more than a wagging tail defines a dog."
2006-12-11 14:53:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bruce 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas was established as a day to remember the Birth of Christ... For those who know Him, every day is to be a day of obedience to Him... If all whould follow Him and not give in to ego and greed and pride...then the utopia you seek would be... but do not hold your breath...
2006-12-11 14:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that people should have that "holiday spirit" all your long, and not just at christmas. people should be kind and giving all year long. I know i try to be
2006-12-11 14:31:42 · answer #5 · answered by lilpeanutbutteryone 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's what makes Christmas special. The remainder of the year, Oprah can do the rest.
2006-12-11 14:33:11 · answer #6 · answered by Debra D 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
cause sometimes we are having a bad year and we just don't get exsited for people that are just all jolly.
2006-12-11 14:37:42 · answer #7 · answered by Mysterious 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because we do not want to be give all the time. It all about me world.
k1
2006-12-11 14:34:23 · answer #8 · answered by Kenneth G 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe you need to take a closer look at yourself...?
Do you?
2006-12-11 14:34:18 · answer #9 · answered by tmlamora1 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
people are dealing with many issues and theyre not usually rich but God does have this special time and it does affect people...Life is depressing and Satan is good at dividing and conquering!
2006-12-11 14:31:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋