{"id":3714,"date":"2016-12-08T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2016-12-03T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:32:18","slug":"december-month-warmth-sincerity-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2016\/12\/december-month-warmth-sincerity-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"December is a month for warmth and sincerity II"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second blog in a series<\/a> on warmth and sincerity;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

All we could think to say, was, \u201cThanks Mom and Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I could see that stuff didn\u2019t give, or take away, warmth and sincerity. I could feel a presence<\/strong> of warmth and sincerity. I grew up in a good family and was a happy child.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more noteworthy is that about ten years later, that warmth and sincerity were given motion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you how.<\/p>\n

When in my twenties, I\u2019d become a full-fledged holiday fan. I made lists. I went to different shopping malls. I compared and contrasted gift ideas. I cooked, I baked. I was busy.<\/p>\n

But after a few years, I noticed that it was becoming more difficult to feel warm and sincere.<\/p>\n

To remedy this, as is my habit, I prayed. I gave myself what I call, a mental treatment. I didn\u2019t treat myself with disdain for falling prey to the stress that came with all the hustle and bustle.<\/p>\n

I treated myself with warmth and sincerity.<\/p>\n

Then I noticed something.<\/p>\n

That hustle and bustle taught me about motion.<\/p>\n

At the time, I\u2019d gotten caught up in the momentum<\/strong> of commercialism, so to speak. The commercialism wasn\u2019t the point, it was the movement<\/strong> that had my attention.<\/p>\n

So, I experimented in my mind.<\/p>\n

I detached the momentum<\/a> from commercialism, threw out the commercialism, and attached the momentum to warmth and sincerity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t do that,\u201d I heard in my mind.<\/p>\n

But I could. I could acknowledge warmth and sincerity in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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