Jesus is the reason for the season

Marilena Alexandra Socol
4 min readDec 23, 2021

The pandemic has caused stress and anxiety for everyone worldwide.
The last two years turned into sacrifice years, leading to losing jobs, getting divorced, losing friends, but more terrifying, losing dear ones for good.
The last two years of sacrifice went from normality to insanity, the last two years took lives, took someone’s someone.
Now, while holidays are floating in the air, the Christmas scent is tickling everyone’s nose, especially the little noses, if to be honest. ☺

Christmas trees, decorated homes, lighting globes, garlands all over, miniature Santa saluting right from the entrance, colored socks over the fireplace, hot gingerbread in the oven, hot chocolate flavor mixed around with fresh fir scent. What more one could wish?
It’s Christmas time, the most wonderful time of the year, some would say.
Indeed it is. The feast tables, reunited families, the many presents, the Christmas series of movies, the letter for Santa, children’s smiley faces, the excitement of opening a gift you’ve hoped for, but… that’s not all about this holiday.
Besides the first snow, the fanciest decorations, behind Santa’s sleigh and his reindeer, Christmas is also about Jesus, the real reason for this season.
One should take into consideration the real event on Christmas day, the birth of the ONE called the “SAVIOUR”, Jesus Christ, son of GOD.
Jesus was God’s greatest gift of love to us, sent to “seek and save the lost”.
Thus, HE wants to teach us love, forgiveness, serenity and…

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Marilena Alexandra Socol

thoughts writer, storyteller, mother, wife, and woman. For more, "READ ME"!