{"id":7463,"date":"2013-12-24T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2013-12-24T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:31:35","slug":"worldwide-discussionwhat-is-christmas-really-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=7463","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Discussion:
COULD THIS BE WHAT CHRISTMAS
IS REALLY ALL ABOUT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn\u2019t sleep last night.<\/p>\n

I was up from 2 until 6, having another one of my Conversations with God.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell me about Christmas,\u201d I said. \u201cWhat is it really all about?\u201d<\/p>\n

And I heard, \u201cWhat do you mean, what is it really all about? I\u2019ve told you a million times what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

So I said, \u201cTell me again. I think I may have missed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And suddenly my head was filled with a Christmas Carol \u2013 one of the happiest and most triumphant of all the melodies of Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoy to the world,\u201d the song began, \u201cthe Lord has come.\u201d But I couldn\u2019t get into it. I kept wondering, what is joyful about the coming of someone who is going to be a lord over us?<\/i><\/p>\n

God! I said\u2026I don\u2019t understand this! And God replied, \u201cYou\u2019re right. You don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then God said, \u201cBut at least you\u2019re asking a question. And that\u2019s good. It\u2019s really hard to understand something if you think there are no more questions to ask. You can\u2019t be given an answer if you think you already have the only answer there is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t<\/i> have the answer,\u201d I admitted. \u201cSo what\u2019s the answer?\u201d<\/p>\n

And God said, \u201cThe answer is that the Lord\u2026.who has come\u2026.is not a lord over <\/i>you, but in <\/i>you.\u201d These words came to me at 2:57 this morning, and I pondered them in my heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen,\u201d I ventured, \u201cthe Christmas season is not just a remembering of the birth of a Babe. It is also a celebration of the birth of the Christed one in all<\/i> of us.\u201d And God answered softly, \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then I wondered what all the songs, and all the messages, and all the feelings of Christmas would mean if I accepted this truth. If I really understood that the gift of Christmas is us<\/i>, fully expressed and fully realized. It is us<\/i> — completely willing and totally ready — to love without condition, to give without restriction, to share without limitation, to create without fear, to celebrate ourselves without shame or embarrassment.<\/p>\n

It is us<\/i>, choosing to forgive without hesitation, to help without being asked, to rush in where angels fear to tread.\u00a0 Indeed, to lead the way<\/i> for angels.<\/p>\n

Ah, to lead the way for angels. That\u2019s why we\u2019re here. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve come to the Earth. To be a herald! Hark! The herald, angels sing. Glory to the newborn king.<\/p>\n

At this moment we can give birth to the royalty within us\u2026the royalty that we are<\/i> in God\u2019s eyes. The Magic of Christmas is that it gives us permission<\/i> to take the feeling of love and share it with all those whose lives we touch.<\/p>\n

With friend, and with stranger. With those who agree with us, and with those who disagree. With those who look and act like us, and with those who do not. We are invited today to feel this love, and to give it permanent place within our heart.<\/i> To be the source <\/i>of peace on Earth, and goodwill toward men and women everywhere.<\/p>\n

We are invited to walk the Earth not only as one who is blessed, but as one who blesses. Not only as the Lord of the manner, but in the manner of the Lord.<\/p>\n

For we are the lord of our inner kingdom, and thus, of the outer one as well. And when we understand that, everything changes. We begin to create a world <\/i>in which all is<\/i> calm. All is<\/i> bright. Joy to the world! The Lord has come. Let Earth receive her King.\u00a0 Let every heart\u2026 prepare him room. And heaven, and nature, sing!<\/i><\/p>\n

Joyfully, Neale.<\/p>\n

(The above is a much-requested re-print of a Christmas Message first shared by Neale Donald Walsch in 2007. We hope you enjoyed it…and might even pass it on.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn\u2019t sleep last night. I was up from 2 until 6, having another one of my Conversations with God. \u201cTell me about Christmas,\u201d I said. \u201cWhat is it really all about?\u201d And I heard, \u201cWhat do you mean, what is it really all about? I\u2019ve told you a million times what it\u2019s all about.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7467,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}