Feeling Childlike on Christmas
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder) Christmas is one of the most important and magnificent holidays of the Christian calendar. This is a miraculous time of year when people begin to believe in miracles again and become pure-minded like heartfelt children. We all come from childhood. This is a fun and good time which is associated with sweet memories and a sense of continuing happiness. I remember this happy-go-lucky period of my life when I dreamed with confidence without thinking whether my dreams would come true or not. On Christmas Eve, there were dozens of lights which gloom in our house and father loved to do his ritual, the lighting of firecrackers after noche buena. I remember also how my mother cooked her home-made cheese-topped spaghetti and prepared bibingka and biko specialties. Honestly,...