On this day when so many gather to celebrate joy and love together, there will nevertheless be strife. “Interpersonal conflict” you call this, and it is quite common in your world. Today, on this day when you celebrate the birth of one who understood spiritual Truth, we advise you to follow his guidance and be only love.

If it is your habit to be a peacemaker, then so be it, but do not worry so much about others’ happiness. When you run about trying to make others happy, do you not actually experience a bit of fear and worry inside? Give, instead, the gift of love. Take a deep breath. Know that the others’ task and path is to find love as well. It is not your responsibility to find it for them, merely to find your own. If, in radiating naught but love, others should find that love within themselves, then this would truly be a gift, would it not? Allowing yourself to not worry whether others are content is actually a gift to yourself.

Give the gift of love by simply being love, and the miracle of Christmas will occur again.