#club5050 || Christmas contest || what does Christmas mean to you by @amaka06 || 30% to @hive-151446

Greetings my dear stars of steem, I want to thank the organizers of this contest for this nice contest, I am glad to participate in this contest and share with you what Christmas means to me. I hope you find it interesting.

Christmas as you all know and according to the Oxford dictionary is "an annual Christian festival celebrating the birth of Christ held on the 25th of December". To a lot of people, Christmas has come to mean more than just a regular festival and I happen to be one of those people. Over the years when the world Christmas is mentioned a lot comes to my mind.

Christmas has come to mean the following to me :

• A TIME TO SHOW LOVE AND GIVE GIFTS

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This is the main and most important meaning of Christmas to me. I have come to see Christmas as a time to show love and give gifts. This idea is one I was taught and had practiced from childhood.
The meaning of Christmas as a time to show love is formed from from the Bible/religious account of the reason for the birth of the Messiah, which is to save the world. The child Jesus was a gift from God. Salvation to the world is also an act of love.
the Bible also tells us of how he was given gifts when he was born. over the years these have shaped my opinion of the meaning of Christmas as a time of showing love and giving gifts

• A TIME FOR SOBER REFLECTION AND REMINISCING :

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To me Christmas also means a time to reflect over my life and reminisce on the birth of the messiah , to think about how he was born to save me and how his birth affects my life, to think about how I had lived my life all through the year and how to better my life . A time to generally evaluate my life

• A TIME TO BE MERRY AND HAPPY

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Christmas has also come to mean a time to be merry, to celebrate, feast, party and be happy. I remember when I was little, my parents would never discipline anyone on Christmas day, we weren't allowed to do any work in the house. All we did was to eat, drink and have fun. A lot of parties were always held during the Christmas period too

• THANKSGIVING

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To me christmas also means a time of Thanksgiving. The Christmas month which is December also happens to be the last month of the year, when we would go to church for annual thanksgiving . Ever since I was a child, I always followed my parents to church during this time to give thanks to God for the year's success and for our lives.

• A TIME FOR FAMILY REUNION

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It also means a time for family reunion. During christmas all my relatives would come down from wherever they were and we would converge at the family house, we would spend time with each other and have fun, so when I hear the world christmas , I think about reconnecting with family and spending time with my relatives I hadn't seen for long.

MY WISHES

My wishes for Christmas are simple ;

• I wish I had enough money, I would love to buy my parents and friends special gifts this Christmas

• I wish the economy of my country was better and everyone could afford all what they needed and no one would have to suffer

• I wish Christmas never came to and end or it was more than once a year so I could spend more time with all my family members

• I wish my grand parents would come back to life😭😭, we always visited them during Christmas and I loved their company.

Special thanks to this community and all the admins

I am inviting my friends @chromeadvice, @kikuk22, @iamcnviktorv and @ofalamin to participate in this contest, here is the link to the contest :

https://steemit.com/hive-151446/@hive-151446/concurso-navideno-que-significa-la-navidad-y-cuales-son-tus-deseos