DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO GIVE THIS CHRISTMAS RATHER THAN RECEIVE?

YES, you do. It is not that you want to prove that you have included them as one of your special friends that has to be given something… it is that fact that when you see their eyes lit up and that winsome smile appears on their faces… You know that whatever the gift costs… IT WAS WORTH THE BOTHER anyway.

YES, you do. It is not that you want to award them a present because they have been good this year (as what my niece always points out)… it is a promise that if they turned out to be BETTER (not only good) the next year… HAIR REBONDING is what they will get. (Right Dannecka?)

YES, you do. It is not that you are friends that you are bound to give them something. It is that you remember them in times like Christmas and wishes that you could spend it with them… but of, course… family first.

YES, you do. It is not the obligation to the community that you have to give the street children a holiday treat… it is for you to give them hope that life will get better.

YES, you do. It is not because you make people happy when they get a present… It’s the happiness that you felt that… in some ways… you made their Christmas a little perfect…

YES, you do. It’s not because people have more money to spend this Christmas or the next… you give away parts of it because it is one way of celebrating the birth of Jesus as he was given to us by the Holy Father…