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O U R L I F E MONTHLY, published by Ukrainian National W omen’s League of America CHRIST IS BORN With the oncoming Christmas holidays and the New Year, we greet all people of good will! To the honorable head of UNWLA, the head of WFUWO, Lydia Burachynsky, we wish health, happiness, and all the best in all respects, in work and in other fields of interest. Through her, we send greetings and best wishes to all organizations in WFUWO. To the members of our organization, we wish for the best in their personal and family lives; we wish for success in their social and professional work, for the ful fillment of all their expectations and dreams. Our work is not easy, but we believe that with God’s blessing and with the cooperation of all the cells of our organization, we will continue successfully reaching our goals. We wish luck, health, and happiness to all in all aspects of their private and social lives. Our thoughts and wishes extend to all those who will be celebrating the Birth of Christ in fear and terror, but with the belief in the eventual triumph of Truth and Goodness. Executives of UNWLA EDITORIAL THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, THE BIRTH OF PEACE AND LOVE Once again, a new year is upon us. Once again, we look back and remember the good and the bad that the old year brought us. Once again, we look into the future and dream of what the new year of 1980 will bring us. But when we look back at the past, we see that our lives are whizzing past us; everything seems to blend together in one picture, almost as if we were travelling on a silver Supertrain of life. We go through life and life itself seems to push us from one event to the next. We are constantly so busy that we often forget the true meaning of life. We are gifted with free will. Therefore, we should slow down our “train” and see who is travelling besides us. Then, maybe, we’ll see someone who needs our love and attention. Once we have given a smile to someone who needed it, we will find the world a better place to be for having shared our love. The French pilot and writer, Antoine de Saint- Exupery, in his philosophical tale, "The Little Prince,” expresses this thought: "One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to under stand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore.” In another instance we read “Here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” In such solemn moments, when for a short while we interrupt the hustle and bustle of our daily routines, let’s listen to what our hearts say. Let’s think of love, but not in the expression of emotions, but rather in the way that Christ taught us: love which fully understands and knows others. Often our thoughts and good will extend to those in our distant Motherland. But we must try to understand that they, and those that managed to find themselves among us, have behind them decades of persecution. They come to us not as guests from a house full of luxuries, but from prisons and psychiatric hospitals. We must greet them with open hearts; we must give them time to adjust and to get to know the world in which they are to live. We shouldn’t expect them to be like us and we should not use them in the fulfillment of our private and party goals. Let them truly become free citizens in a free land.
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