Christmas Spirit


It's three days before Christmas and I'm gathering my Christmas spirit.  I take it from the music I listen to at work and the movies I watch when I'm home.  I try to see it in others while I'm out and about picking up a few things.  I feel it's sweetness in the goodies that seem to be in abundance.  (My clothes are noticing as they hug me more tightly around my ever growing middle.)  I forget that it is in the GIVING of Christmas that I RECEIVE more of it's SPIRIT.

I hope for my family to be happy and kind, generous and thoughtful.  I promise to be a model of patience and thoughtfulness.  I have faith in an ever loving God who promises things will be okay.  I search for love of myself and those that are different from me.  I am reminded of Christmas' past - filled with joys and sorrows - but isn't that how it's supposed to be?

Sometimes, I wonder where I would be had I made different choices - only to be reminded that I'm where I'm supposed to be.  Knowing that I  really wouldn't want to change anything.  As I go through some struggles, I know that they will help me to grow stronger in the gifts of Christmas. I know this because I've experienced struggles of finance and health before and I lived! I've survived great losses and gained more strength.  I've learned that sometimes, I have to muddle through the muck to get to the other side.  And that it is in the muddling that lessons are learned, relationships are strengthened, and faith is restored.

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