Happy Kwanzaa!

Merry Christmas to my followers.  I hope your Christmas was blessed and filled with many presents given as well as received.  That you remembered that Jesus was the reason for the season and celebrated his birth.

Happy Kwanzaa to those who celebrate the importance of family, community, and our African history.

December 26 Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.


December 27 Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.

December 28 Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.

December 29Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

December 30 Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

December 31 Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

January 1 Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

If you have never celebrated Kwanzaa before, but you do spend the holidays with your family reflecting on the past year, welcoming the new year, and celebrating and creating memories.  You are ideally practicing the principles of Kwanzaa. 
 
What new traditions did you and your family create this year? Are you ready to welcome in the new year? What are some things you personally need to work on based on the principles of Kwanzaa?
 
Keep the Faith!
 
Until next time,
~E