Last year I mentioned people telling us what big hearts they had, giving to charities while exchanging no presents among themselves. A letter to the Straits Times today confirmed my worst suspicions.
Please, everyone. We don't have to know what great world citizens you are--a brief mention here, an advertisement for Oxfam there... that will do a lot more than you telling everybody how many you helped and putting an air of self-righteousness in every Christmas season.
These actions for the less fortunate are fine and good. I'd like to join in. I'd like everyone to join in. But there's no need to tell the whole world how you filled boxes with presents, how you joined a tree-planting initiative, and the fact you spent all that gift-giving money on charity work. To me it just smacks of the need to be noticed doing good things--hamming, in other words.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but God is quite capable of seeing what you do without resorting to the old newspaper-trumpet every Christmas. Remember what Jesus said about doing good deeds to be noticed by men.
Enough on humbugging with me. Have a merry Christmas, and happy new year!
Now if I can just figure out what to say...
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