Quiet Christmas I ever had.

My Christmas was a quiet one.  I stayed home the whole day.  No one came to visit.  All because my children were busy with their own preparation and celebration with friends and relatives.  

Am I lonely?  Am  I sad?  No.  In fact, it was a restful Christmas Day for me.  It was the first time that I had a quiet and restful Christmas day.  I spent the day watching concert on television.  I liked EWTN broadcast.  I listened with gusto to the many beautiful Christmas carols.  I spent long time watching television that I never did before.  

Miracles happened - that I believed.  From unexpected people.  And, it happened even past Christmas Day.  Just now, someone pressed the doorbell.  What a surprised! that the subdivision owner where I live sent me a very nice plant in a wood planter he himself designed and his worker done.  The plant is a fern which we call here 'pakpak ng lawin' (or eagle's wings).The wood is of santol tree.

Though I don't think of Christmas as just receiving and giving presents, but it is a day where one can give others what they can.  There are many ways to give present to anyone: the street children, the people living in carts, or homeless people, those in orphanages, and home for the aged, in prison and in hospitals.  Those are lonely people because of the life circumstances, and so a little present given cheerfully and sincerely make them feel God is alive and around them.

The above picture is what I received just as I am typing this blog. There are unexpected gift, isn't it? and a beautiful one, too.

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  • dear Fe, thanks  for this blog .Wishing you a very happy new year that welcomes you with good health, wealth and happiness.

  • I've had a similar experience, too, and the lesson I learned from it is that expectations either cause us disappointed (when things don't go the way we wanted them to, which happens more often than not) or spoil the fun (we can hardly have a pleasant surprise when things go the way we expected them to). Since then I've tried to constantly clear myself of expectations as soon as I'm aware of them. I'm still in the beginning stage, however, slowly but surely I'll get better at this :)

  • Wish you a happy new year Fe :)
  • Marry Christmas and happy new year Fe. Thank you for sharing.

  • Merry christmas and Happy new year Fe. Your positive attitude to what happens around is really appreciable. It mentions of your emotional maturity that a few people have it.
    God bless you. :-)

  • you are never alone, friends, here is a greeting from thousands miles distance East of world to you:happy new year.

  • Nice gift, Fe. On one hand firstly I felt kind of sad that you spent it alone but then I reread it and I think you were really satisfied like this. I feel from your blog you enjoyed it and this is what life is about. Thank you for sharing and belated Merry Christmas :-)
  •  Thank you for nice comment.

    Yes, indeed.  He is a landscape designer, too.  I happened to pass past by the new house he built to sell and the house were made from the trees he planted around the subdivision like the eucalyptus, maguim and acacia trees, and local fruit trees like that planter he sent me. I will take pictures on it soon and will post here.  

  • I think it's not too late to wish you a merry Christmas. And happy new year. What a nice gesture from the owner.

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