Surely Christmas has gone desperately awry
When for presents we do manipulate and cry
While entirely neglecting the reason why
Christ the Savior of the world was born
Did humbly come to earth and was crucified
Died for a sinful humanity and rose miraculously
Yet most in the world only celebrate the baby
Christ the King born in a humble manger
However only remembering Him as such
Is by far more odd, awkward, and stranger
To not embrace the fullness of the blessing of Christ
Being forgetful of His supreme blood sacrifice
When He died on the cross of crucifixion
To liberate and give us newness of life
Why then all the commercialism and materialism
When we commemorate and remember His birth
Have we forgotten the King of kings divine worth
The awesomeness of His mighty, powerful Presence
Seeking to replace it with something called presents
Wherein we lose the precious value of the divine
Passing by the importance of peace within sublime
Opting and preferring shopping with greed’s slime
Seduction, attraction, and evil consumeristic allure
Of this one thing I am sure. We have lost the meaning
Of the blessed Christ and the season called Christmas
As we salivate and refuse to hesitate to restrain ourselves
From pursuing gifts under the tree, while we simultaneously
Sway in instability having been robbed of inner tranquility
Which we’ve replaced with stuff and things materially
That mesmerize and leave us afterward feeling empty
Therefore as for me and my family, give us divine Presence
Because Christ’s divine Presence is the most special present
Any person or family could receive and embrace daily
Hence a gift exchange of presents for divine Presence
Is always blessed and bestows gifts of divine intangibility.
I pray the warmth of Christ’s Spirit will help you feel and see
The wonders of Christmas today, tomorrow, and eternally.
Christmas Presents Or Christ’s Divine Presence? Christmas Gone Awry, When For Presents We Do Cry
Special Wedding Anniversary Presents for Friends on Special Events
Wedding is an occasion which arrives only once in the life of an individual. It is definitely true that no other occasion is as special as this one, but the date of marriage which knocks the door annually divides the pleasure of that very day into small segments. Rejoicing those moments, however, brings the marriage memories of the couples back. You can easily get several presents for friends if any of them are planning to celebrate their anniversaries. Visiting physical stores will let you come across some of the best items that you can present them on that day. To get more unique wedding anniversary gifts for friends, online stores can also be great options.
An invitation to your friend’s wedding anniversary party leads you to a dilemma on which item to choose to suit his requirements. Friends are too close to an individual. Thus, no one could ever know your friend more than yourself. You might know the future plans of your friend after marriage. If he or she wants to shift to some other settlement, presenting simple household items would be the best presents for friends on their anniversary. They will surely need to buy those items after they shift. Then why not you contribute some of them and make the shifting process a bit simpler. Along with household goods, you can present antiques and other decorative items as ideal presents for friends to enhance the look of their home.
Honeymoon after marriage is something very common in the lives of the couples. But planning a long trip for the couples on their later anniversaries could be great. If you think your friend is too busy with his professional life, being a true peer, you should arrange a long trip for the couple and give him an opportunity to spend some quality time with his life partner. Thus, a trip or travel package will be one of the most wonderful presents for friends on their anniversary, either it is the first or the twenty-fifth or later. You know very well, when your friend’s wedding anniversary is. Isn’t it? Plan a surprise party for the couple and invite close friends and family for the event. This will surely be one of the delightful wedding anniversary presents for friends.
The above-mentioned items are the common gifts that you can take into consideration as some simple presents for friends. But many people try to get something unique for the couples to make their gifts, mementos for those occasions. It’s true that each and every wedding anniversary is symbolized by some metal. If you want to give a special touch to your presents, try to get something related to those symbols. For instance, paper symbolizes the first year of a couple’s married life. Suggest your friend to write a letter full of description of his or her life partner’s qualities and make him or her feel special on the very first wedding anniversary. No other present can be as original as these unique wedding anniversary gifts.
As paper signifies the first marriage anniversary, wood is for 5th, silver for 25th, coral for 35th, gold for 50th, diamond for 60th and so on.
How to Effectively Present All of Your IT Skills
Effectively present all of your IT skills with the IT Technical Skills Summary – an exceptionally powerful document that should form part of every resume submitted.
The IT Technical Skills Summary ensures that every IT skill you have acquired – computer software, computer hardware, applications software, and so on, will be indexed in resume databases or viewed by hiring managers or recruiters. It will prove to be a valuable tool in helping you to get the job interview that will lead to the right job.
The layout uses 4-columns to allow you to effectively present a complete, quantified, qualified, very easy to read, summary of the IT technical skills and experience that you have acquired over the course of your career.
The 4-column layout enables an employer to quickly scan, in a matter of seconds, the complete document to see if you have the technical skills and experience that they need.
Resume databases are used by most recruiters, headhunters and employers. Every word – every skill – that is included in a resume is indexed when your resume is added to the database. If the skill or experience is not inlcuded in your resume because you have edited your resume down to one or two pages then vital skills that may get you interviewed are missing.
The IT Technical Skills Summary ensures that your resume is database ready and that each and every skill that you have worked so hard to acquire will be indexed when your resume is entered or scanned into a resume database.
When is searched is done for a required skill, or set of skills, your name will be part of the top search listings – if your skills match the skill-set needed.
Your acquired skills are what make you unique and of potential value to an employer. Differentiate yourself. What is considered an acquired skill? Just reading a book about something does not count as an acquired skill.
Generally, to be considered “acquired” the skill has been used in a work environment, in unpaid work done for a volunteer organization or learned through formal instruction in a school, college, university or on-the-job training. Of course, there are always exceptions and the skill could have been acquired through self-study and work.
People are constantly bombarded with the idea that a resume should only be one or two pages long. Nonsense. The number of pages required will depend on how long you have been working and how many skills you have acquired. The greater the number of years worked and the greater the number of skills acquired, the more pages required.
It cannot be too long if the IT Technical Skills Summary includes the skills that you have acquired over the course of your career.
You need to present your skills so that employers and recruiters know that you have them. You have worked hard and made a large investment of time and money to acquire your skills.
So get out your pen and begin to write down every skill that you have acquired and prepare your own IT Technical Skills Summary.
Richard E Ward is a Sounding Board, Communications Consultant,Guide who uses his eclectic experience in life, business, government and holistic healing to help his clients. He has more than 40 years experience as a personal coach, guide, sounding board, author, political organizer, communications consultant, business owner, headhunter and shamanic practitioner.