This I Believe

This I Believe Essay

I believe in the celebration of Christmas. The love, giving, joy and religion

that embrace the season. I believe in the anxiety the night before Santa comes, the rush

that goes through your body when you see your mother and father smile as open up the

gifts that you made them.

I believe in love especially during Christmas. Families gather around the

fireplace, sipping on their hot chocolate and devouring all the homemade Christmas treats

you have smelled cooking only days before. In fact, the house still smells of cinnamon

and nutmeg. Loved ones bundle up close to one another, to stay warm from the cold and

that is when you realize who loves you and who will always be there for you. You know

that love is abundant when everyone is sharing Christmas’ past and family traditions –

you can hear it in their voices, see it in their eyes; there is simply no mistaking the aura of

the love surrounding Christmas.

I believe in the giving of valuable time, helping neighbors to decorate their home,

and sitting a while with them to listen as they share. I have often been too busy, and they

have always been so lonely. I believe in giving gifts that cost no money.

I believe the joy of Christmas accelerated on the very first day of December.

You suddenly find the good in those that often do not give you joy. You happily drop a

coin for the bell ringers for the Salvation Army. There is an immense joy from knowing

that giving to needy children selected from the Angel Tree will help them to

believe there is love through giving. I believe there is a joy when a family divided

reunites at Christmas. It just all comes together, the joy, the giving, the love, the religion,

almost like a parcel wrapped under a festive decanted tree .

I believe in Jesus, and the celebration of His birth. I believe there cannot be

enough Christmas hymns sung, too many living nativities performed or Carolers

knocking on nursing home doors. It is the joy of sharing this belief of Jesus’ birth that

multiples the emotions of believing in the celebration of Christmas.