{"id":15,"date":"2007-12-26T02:43:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T02:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-love"},"modified":"2007-12-26T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T05:35:00","slug":"merry-christmas-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to everyone &#8211; Love all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It is that time of the year when you  gift all your near and dear ones the &#8220;best of the best&#8221;gifts. But is Christmas all about giving gifts that have hundred dollars tags attached ? If you ask me I would say No, because Christmas to me is celebration of new beginning, hopes, dreams and love for humanity!<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends is a Christian and he recently gave me his Bible to read. I confess here that I could not read it completely but I did manage to sneak a peep into the  quote that aptly defined the most intangible feeling called Love . So here goes the quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=53&amp;chapter=13\">from Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/p>\n<p>Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.<\/p>\n<p>And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So come and let&#8217;s love, the unconditional love. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Here is another Lyrics I remember from a movie Love Actually<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I feel it in my fingers,<br \/>\nI feel it in my toes,<br \/>\nChristmas is all around me,<br \/>\nand so the feeling grows<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s written in the wind,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s everywhere I go,<br \/>\nSo if you really love Christmas,<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon and let it snow?<\/p>\n<p>You know I love Christmas<br \/>\nI always will<br \/>\nMy mind&#8217;s made up<br \/>\nThe way that I feel<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no beginning<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be no end<br \/>\nCuz on Christmas,<br \/>\nYou can depend<\/p>\n<p>You gave your presents to me<br \/>\nAnd I gave mine to you<br \/>\nI need Santa beside me<br \/>\nIn everything I do<\/p>\n<p>You know I love Christmas<br \/>\nI always will<br \/>\nMy mind&#8217;s made up<br \/>\nThe way that I feel<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no beginning<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be no end<br \/>\nCuz on Christmas,<br \/>\nYou can depend<\/p>\n<p>Cuz on Christmas,<br \/>\nYou can depend<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s written on the wind<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s everywhere I go<br \/>\nSo if you really love me<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon and let it snow?<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon and let it snow?<br \/>\nSo if you really love<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon and let it<br \/>\nIf you really love me<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon and let it<br \/>\nNow if you really love me<br \/>\nC&#8217;mon and let it snow?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It is that time of the year when you gift all your near and dear ones the &#8220;best of the best&#8221;gifts. But is Christmas all about giving gifts that have hundred dollars tags attached ? If you ask me I would say No, because Christmas to me is celebration of new beginning, hopes, dreams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meabhi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}