Is Christmas still about family, Faith and community?
On paper and in textbooks, Christmas is a religious holiday celebrated differently all around the world by billions of people. In London, swimmers meet Christmas morning at Hyde Park for the Christmas Day Serpentine Swim also known as the Peter Pan Cup Race. While in Berlin, Germans take part in a traditional Christmas ice swimming session. In Chile, many Catholics attend a special church service for 9 days before Christmas which is known as Novena, and in India, Christian worshippers attend a midnight mass church service. Across the globe, we can see Christians attempting to remain spiritually connected during Christmas by honoring the birth of Christ in their lives with either a church service or a community cleansing.
However, conversely, many Americans crowd the malls and grocery stores over-spending on food and gifts. In fact, most Americans may agree that Christmas has become so commercialized that the pressure to accumulate unnecessary debt is almost unavoidable.
Our pre-Christmas turn up consisted of a Vision Board Party for family and peers where we gathered at my long-time friend Chanel Diana Walker’s vintage boutique, Lace Style Agency Emporium, located in east Fort Lauderdale.
About 10 dreamers including myself broke bread with a very tasty charcueterie platter provided by Kitchen Killa Culinary Solutions and indulged in one of my favorite specialty holiday cocktails. Ranging in age from 12 to over 50, we sat Indian style on over-sized pillows, clipping and gluing pictures from magazines while visualizing the next season of our lives. I opened the event with my personal testimony recalling how when God saved my home from foreclosure, my car from repossession, and transformed me from a secretary to a CEO, I relied solely on my faith to “see those things that are not as though they were.” It was a powerful moment as guests recalled times where they too had to “walk by faith and not by sight.”
Between Jay Z lyrics, you could hear laughter, more testimonies and explanations of why vision would be so vital in the coming seasons. “Community Church” was definitely in session.
In this season, it is my sincerest prayer that we individually embrace our power to break free from traditions of old and create new hope for ourselves and communities for seasons to come. Happy Holidays family.
Crystal Chanel
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