I confess. I have Christmas cards and letters still waiting to be mailed and gifts to be wrapped. (And please, could we not talk about my list of neglected everyday chores?)
If you're sharing this uncomfortable boat with me, you may be thinking, "Now if I can just get through Christmas..."
That's a trap. As soon as we do that we rob our days of the joy that comes with reading letters from friends and thinking how to please the people we love. I think it's time for a vision adjustment and a transfusion. (Sorry, I can't produce an extra five or six days...)
Pause for breath and let's drink in some energy for our spirits:
Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words. Harlan Miller
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Charles DickensThis is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ. Frank McKibben
Take Christ out of Christmas, and December becomes the bleakest and most colorless month of the year. A. F. Wells
The Light that shines from the humble manger is strong enough to lighten our way to the end of our days. Vita-Rays
God rest you merry, lovely readers. Let us rejoice-in-the-midst of the rubble all around us. That same Light will power our personal "energy cells," one day after another.
Question for you: What's your biggest hurdle in this wonderful Christmas time?
Lenore
