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Christmas 2 – Final Chapter

If you are reading this blog in real time – in other words, on the actual day it is published – it will be Christmas Eve in the USA. Alan and I hope that all of you either had a wonderful Christmas celebration or are just about to celebrate Christmas with your family or friends. If you can, try not to cause distress to anyone on this day. It is often when one has had a glass of wine or another type of alcoholic drink that words come out of the mouth a little smoother than normal.

We are heading closer to the year 2012 when there will be shift in the energy of the earth plane, and slowly things are destined to change. For 30 years the Photon energy has been preparing the world for this change, and although not catastrophic (sorry all those of you who expected it to be so), it will change the way the energy of the world has been. You will begin to feel it more and more as we head into December 2012. If you have any fear about this time, then get rid of it. As Maitreya said at the beginning of the millennium in 1999/2000, it is not going to be as bad as you think it is.

On this Christmas Day, try to enjoy the holiday. Do something daring (like eating my fruit cake LOL!). Just let go of any stress, worry, or anything else, and enjoy the time you have. To all those of you who believe and support Maitreya, Alan and I thank you for your continued support of the work we do. We are once again returning to Canada after Christmas, a nostalgic trip almost exactly as the first trip we took in 2004. I personally am so looking forward to it. We also hope 2011 will be a year of very positive things for all of you. If you think positively, you will be positive.

Margaret McElroy

Christmas 2 – Continued

Of course, Christmas would not be Christmas without the pleas from the charity groups and the services that help those in need. At Christmas, I am inundated with catalogues from merchants wanting me to buy their goods and with envelopes asking for a donation. I have to admit that I do feel terrible in that I cannot help everyone, but I cannot. I prefer to make one donation to the local children’s hospital and that is my lot for the year. For me it is a form of tithing. What one gives out will come back eventually, if not in this life then in another or the world of Spirit. However, I never think of it like that. To me, it is giving a gift to help heal a child and, as I am in the business of healing, it makes sense to do this.

If you have never tithed, then do consider doing it. It is interesting that the major churches with influence today in the Christian tradition all have tithing as their main source of income. Tithing is giving a donation once a month to a cause. It is given without expecting anything back. It is to be given in love and, when done so, usually those who give get what they have given back ten fold. Before Maitreya came into my life, I always tithed – even though sometimes I hardly had enough to live on myself, but what I gave was always returned, and often in a very short period of time. Christmas is a wonderful time to begin the tithing ritual, because it is at the end of one year and the beginning of another. I have often had people say to me, “But I cannot tithe; I do not have enough money to do so.” But what about inviting someone who is alone for Christmas – or any holiday for that matter – to dinner, or offer to do something for them which will make their lives easier. There is always something that one can do for another.

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Christmas 2 – Continued

This year will be my 7th Christmas in the USA. My first was in December 2004 when Alan and I arrived from Australia with the idea of closing down his apartment here and going back to Australia. We did close the apartment down in 2005, but we never went back to Australia. I will never forget that Christmas because it was our first together. It snowed, and for someone who for 30 years had only seen snow once, I was like a kid in a candy store. Alan was going through a very difficult time, having just that year (2004) left his marriage and his life as he had known it.

We also went to Canada for a week. To say it was breathtaking was amazing, from the heat of Australia in summer to a Washington and Canadian wonderland in winter was just overwhelming. Christmas in Australia – with the heat and the season being different to what I had experienced growing up in England – was so alien to me when I first went in 1974, and it never changed even during my 8 years in New Zealand. Christmas after Christmas was spent trying to make it Christmas (as I had known it). The tree was there, so was the trimming of the tree, the presents under the tree, the festive shops, and Christmas dinner – usually a cold salad or barbecue – but it never seemed to be Christmas for me. Then I came to the USA and felt as if I had come home.

There is a difference between an Australian/New Zealand Christmas and a USA one, and it has to be the weather being colder, the breath coming out of the mouth in the cold, and (when it does happen) the snow. We had a snow Christmas in 2004, then 2006, 2008 and in-between a smattering of snow. They have forecast it for this year, 2010, also.

I very rarely go to the stores anymore to shop, choosing to shop on line even for groceries, or sending Alan with a list of the things I need, he is an excellent shopper, and I am not tempted to buy things I do not need LOL!

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Christmas 2 – Continued

It is usually at Christmas time that nostalgia – in all its glory – shines, and so it should! One can have a wonderful time and still be detached! Are you one of those who spends a lot of money buying gifts or do you try to do something yourself – perhaps make a cake, some candy, or some kind of gift made with one’s own hand. I personally make all of the Christmas cards Alan and I send out. I try very hard to make them as professional looking as I can. Many of those who receive them tell me they never destroy them after Christmas and they go into a box as a keepsake.

I also make Christmas cakes, traditional English ones with fruit and nuts in them. I was quite upset last year to hear one of my recipients of a cake I had made had never eaten it because these cakes from other people are usually sent around the country to various people, who just send it on. I had put so much into my cakes last year and then to find these people had not eaten it. I dare not ask what happened to it and, to be honest, I am in two minds whether to give them another one this year. A part of me says that I am being nasty refusing them one, and another part of me says that maybe this year they will eat it and enjoy it. I do know that those who do get my cakes love them (apart, of course, from this one couple). The thing is, in Australia before I came to the USA to live, I never even made my own Christmas cards – never mind made anything else. There is something about the USA, winter, and Christmas that makes one really “sooky” (as I call it) and very nostalgic.

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Christmas 2

I stopped celebrating the Christian Christmas many years ago, but I do celebrate the holiday and look upon Christmas as a time to remember Christmas of times past – a time of memory. It is even more poignant for me this year because, after 25 or more years, I have found my brother – or should I say – he found me on Facebook. Not only did he find me on Facebook, but he also discovered Skype. We lost contact with each other all those years ago and have just reunited, spending long hours on Skype talking to each other. He is in Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, and I am in Seattle, Washington, USA. The last two weeks have been spent with both of us saying, “Remember when?” and laughing at times ‘till we cried! More than anything, my brother has discovered Skype and he is amazed at how he can communicate using it. I told him about being able to see my grandchildren open their presents in Australia on Christmas Day and it only being Christmas Eve here in the USA.

For me it is a happy Christmas because I’m able to communicate with my brother, but for Alan it is a sad time as his family has split apart into two factions, and it means that this Christmas the gathering will be missing members of his family. His marital break-up six years ago caused the rift and, unfortunately, sides were taken – which has turned quite ugly. I know this is not an isolated incident and many thousands (if not millions) of families around the world will be spending the holidays the same way. One can ask, “But why does this happen?” Well, it is happening because people have free will and choice, and because we – as humanity – have not yet learned to let go of emotional detachment. We also judge others instead of accepting their choices and we hold anger inside of us for those who have created the issues such as those mentioned.

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