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Kids, teens - homeless, unloved, abused, neglected, or unwanted!

Let down by Christmas, family or fiends?

Christmas is not about those surrounded with money, goods, food and love.

It is about YOU when things are going badly, when life is tough.

Christmas is the birthday of a spirit/man called Jesus Christ, connected to somewhere off this planet. He had super magical powers, given him by a spirit we call God.

He was born here specifically to help people like you - to let you know God would use his magic powers to look after you, feed you, to guide your way every day.

Forget those who say God does not exist. Find out for yourself.

Get a Bible including what is called "The New Testament". Read only four books Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They record what Jesus said and did. These stories are about you and what God can and will do for you. Read them over and over. Underline or highlight important bits. Do what Jesus suggests in each of these stories.

You will see that Jesus too was lonely, dejected, rejected, hated, beaten, let down and eventually killed, though he really did nothing to deserve it - just like you.

Every day for 100 days, think this prayer in your mind. "Please God, give me your love and help me to love even those I hate. Protect me and all other kids like me, from as much harm as you can. Please help me to cope with the terrible bits of my life and show me how to help others."

Each day for those 100 days do one thing nice for somebody else, even someone you don't like. Don't give gifts or spend money on them. DO something nice. Smile, say hello, be helpful, say nice things about them, be their friend. Each day!

If you do your bit, God will do the rest. Bit by bit your life will get better. The more you do for others, the more God will do for you. Give it a try. You have nothing to lose.

Christmas is not about parties and getting drunk, presents and eating too much. Christmas is about God offering to help you personally. If you do your best to help and love other people, God will help and love you. There is nothing surer. If after 100 days it does not seem to be working email help@fairgo.org and we might be able to offer a suggestion or pray with you.

My own Grandpa died and my father was killed, both a bit before one particular Christmas when I was a little kid. That was tough, but maybe not as tough as things are for you. I KNOW that God exists and helps from a spiritual world.

This will work, because God loves you, no matter what the sceptics say. But it is up to you to do your bit first. Get to know the Bible stories and do what they say. Do something nice for someone else every day. Then feel God making your life gradually better.

HAVE A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A GREAT 2008!!

There is a close relationship between God and Good Government. I don't mean that religious fanatics can bring their bigoted and biased views to give us good government. I mean that God, worshipped by Christians, Jews, Muslims and many other faiths (for most believe that there is only one God, so it must be the same one), has constantly communicated messages supporting justice, kindness and rehabilitation to us mere mortals.

Obviously if we try to live together peacefully, share opportunities and basic needs, work for each other's prosperity, we are likely to all be better off.

Peace does not mean disarmament, because one can best negotiate non-violent solutions from a position of power. But it does mean that amongst all our government ministries we also need Peace Ministries. These ministries would be focussed on bringing peaceful solutions to families, communities, states and nations. Peace is harder to create than war is to wage, because it requires concessions to others.

War is just a fight with victory not going to the one who is just or fair, but to the one who can fight hardest, perhaps cruelest. Peace requires research into underlying causes of disputes and the development of solutions which partly please and partly displease, everyone.

Peace will never come from passive approaches. It will be hard to bring about, whether in families who bash their children or nations that invade others. The only way to get peace is to have governments establish and fund Peace Ministries.

Diplomacy and Departments of Foreign Affairs cannot bring about peace, for they have not the skills or inclination. They have existed for centuries whilst the worst of wars have inflicted misery on the people of both sides.

Ordinary citizens do not start wars. Political leaders do. They do it to expand their own power, land, resources and wealth to enjoy. Wars give them more people to command and send into war to die on their behalf.

Only ordinary citizens, voters, can bring about peace, by forcing politicians to form Peace Ministries as well as War Ministries and gradually swing the emphasis from war to peaceful dispute resolution.

That is what God is on about, not letting one group of people condemn, humiliate, injure or kill another group of people, but getting them to work together for their common good.