or....Just Why Christmas Is Worth Waiting for ?.....
A long-term perspective encourages a patient and mutual investment in broadly positive, sustaining outcomes; whereas a sufficiently lustful short-term perspective can make us all beady-eyed bandits raping Black Friday Deals for all they're worth.
Matthew 5:43-48 (PHILLIPS)
43-45 “You have heard that it used to be said, ‘You shall love your neighbour’, and ‘hate your enemy’, but I tell you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Heavenly Father. For he makes the sun rise upon evil men as well as good, and he sends his rain upon honest and dishonest men alike.
46-48 For if you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even tax-collectors do that! And if you exchange greetings only with your own circle, are you doing anything exceptional? Even the pagans do that much. No, you are to be perfect, like your Heavenly Father.
Above clip from movie INVICTUS (trailer follows):
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