Christmas is a Time For Giving
by Jesse J. Lewis, Sr.
Some people can tell themselves, I don’t have anything to give. This is totally inaccurate. Just giving a kind word to a person is a gift.
When you think about yourself and how unfortunate you may be, remember that there are many people in this world who do not have running water, no clothes on their backs, no television or radio, no automobile, or have not eaten any food in several days; who are sick and dying and cannot afford medication or a doctor.
Just think how fortunate you are to have some of these things and that you do have something to give.
No child should wake up on Christmas morning without at least one toy and some food. We must make sure that this does not happen in the most prosperous country in the world. In plain and simple terms, regardless of your financial circumstances, there are at least 50 million people in this world less fortunate than you.
Here is a quotation that tells the whole story written by W.E.B. Dubois in 1903:
The Souls of Black Folk
Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song –soft, stirring melody in an ill-harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil and lay the foundation of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, the gift of the Spirit. Around us the history of the land has centered for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst.
