Your friends, your coworkers, your schoolmates, your neighbors, wherever. We don't have that, we don't have that. But here in the US, it's a different story. Everyone is talking about they are getting ready for Christmas. And when they say they are getting ready, they're getting shopping ready. It's not spiritually speaking, it's more materially speaking. And that makes me anxious. There's something I'm not familiar with. This is shopping
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:49
For Christmas. I am so Christmassy. I love the spirit of Christmas. I love the spirit of giving. The first gift of Christmas was love, and Jesus gave that to us with his birth. I love the fact of seeing my children's faces even though they're young adults. I love seeing their faces on Christmas. I am not a good shopper. I don't go into the stores. I order everything online because I know I can find it
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:10
Hi, Maurice, this is Angela. So good. Swell. Thank you for opening a space for this topic. I struggle with the holidays because of the reasons you mentioned. I don't see where people get into the Christmas spirit, but I do see where they go to the stores and I do see where they spend lots of money. And I do see where people literally get upset with you if you didn't get them what they wanted. Wives are mad at their husbands
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 1:45
Hi Ladyfi, thanks for tuning in. Just like I said, shopping is normal stuff. But I like what you said about the spirit of Christmas for me. For years since I lived in in Africa, I lived in France, and now I'm living here in the United States every single time. Christmas spirit, just I can't get enough of that
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 4:11
Also, sometime on a Christmas day, most of my friends, they are sleeping. You ask them if they went to church. They did not, because they celebrated last night, which means the 24th. They spent a night celebrating and then they didn't go to church. It's not a blame, but I just feel internally, I feel sad that for them, the Christmas is being transformed from the spiritual celebration to business celebration. Yeah
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:35
I'm so excited about putting up my Christmas tree. It's already decorated. Just need to put some finishing touches on it. I love going to Christmas events. I love Christmas parades. I love going to see the Festival of Trees we have here, which are some beautifully decorated Christmas trees. I love walking around the cold during Christmas. I just love the way the air feels. It's just something special about the holiday season
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 4:12
They can do something like this. That would be understandable. But anyway, I agree with you. The spirit of Christmas is really, I can't wait those moment. It's always every single time. You can't get enough of that. Family, friends and all this music, the stores broadcasting Christmas music, the carols and the movies, black and white movies or colored movies with Christmas, some stories. The family reunited on a Christmas night. And those movies, they just make you dream
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:15
But I've noticed, even with Black Friday, that you can go out mid morning and still catch some of the same deals, that people stood in line at 06:00 a.m. Or like five or, well, now it's like three, two, or 03:00 in the morning to get. You can still get those same deals mid morning. So by the time you go out, you have missed most of the chaos. And it's kind of a normal, busy shopping day versus all of that frenzy
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 5:00
Hello, Maurice. Thank you for inviting me to this. So one of my major dislikes is that people, as soon as Halloween is over with, and maybe not even when Halloween is over, Halloween may not even got here yet. People are already putting out Christmas, um, Christmas decorations. I hate the fact that in the stores that they are playing Christmas music and it's just the beginning of November. I absolutely hate that
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 2:06
That's how excited Granny is about the gift that God gave me, which is Jesus coming and being born and then dying on the cross so that I could have the right to salvation. And you can have the right to salvation. And so, yeah, I like that. It