'Santa Claus's Greatest Regret

"Santa Claus symbolizes exactly what I want to be. Every night, with a sack full of many different kinds of presents, I would like to clamber up onto the roof of each house, climb down the chimney, out through the fireplace and into the living room, find the empty stockings and fill them up with presents.

The problem would always be the size of my sack.

No matter how big it was, it would not be big enough to hold all the presents I want to bring. When I think of the number of children in the world waiting for my presents, I feel that I need a much bigger sack.

But Santa Claus cannot move if his sack is too big.

He cannot get down narrow chimneys; so unfortunately, he has to carry a sack that is the right proportions for his body.

Can you see what I am trying to say with this metaphor?

There are billions of people all over the world waiting to receive God's love.

Now that I have been given the opportunity to live in this world, I want to deliver gifts from God to as many people as possible.

I would like to go around putting them into the Christmas stockings of every single person. However, the number of presents that will fit into a sack is limited.

Although I wish to give love without any limits, I have no means of doing so.

This is this Santa's greatest regret.

Sometimes I feel like giving up on being like Santa Claus and instead become like the wind. I imagine how wonderful it would be if love could be passed on, not like the boxes of presents that Santa Claus gives, but like a wind blowing.

If only I could be like the wind, expressing the power of love that blows from nowhere and blows to nowhere!

A wind named Ryuho Okawa or Happy Science that originates in one corner of the globe and blows silently throughout the world, so pure and transparent that people would feel it only when it touched them.

I would like to be a wind such as this, and I would like our Institute to be such a wind.Just like the wind, I want to rise out of nowhere and blow to nowhere.

I would like to be a pure, selfless wind that arises and blows from here to there. I would like to be a wind that gives warmth in winter, a warm draft of air that blows through people's hearts as they wrap scarves around their necks and turn up the collars of their overcoats.

I wish deeply that my love were boundless and unlimited, like the wind."

Excerpt from "The Origin of Love : Chapter 5 Love, Light and Compassion "