“The Christmas rush
is on again! It’s murder on the feet!
The minutes zip! The hours fly! We’re dying to complete this shopping! .
. .Shopping! Shopping! Panic! Shopping! Frantic! Shopping!” The
Christmas Post by Deborah Craig-Claar and Robert Sterling.
Yes dear
sisters, the Christmas rush in on again.
There are parties to attend, houses to decorate, food to prepare, and
gifts to buy. Then if you are in a
church at does a big Christmas musical production, you have extra rehearsals packed
into each week until the performance. Let’s face it; there is not enough time
in the day to complete all the “Christmas” stuff we have to do!
We panic
and become frantic. We lose our tempers,
become easily frustrated with our children and husbands, and we are just not
pleasant to be around. When it comes to
the parties my husband and I must attend, I stress about what I need to
wear-jeans or dress pants. Ugg!
Then
there are the last minute details. Did
you cook enough food? Did you purchase
the equal amount of toys for each child?
You check your “to do” list a thousand times. Christmas Eve arrives and you can settle back
for a quick rest. Surprise! At 9:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, you receive a
phone call stating that your cousin and his/her family you haven’t seen in ten
years will be coming for Christmas dinner too.
You use your most pleasant voice to assure the caller that it will be no
problem to add four more guests at the dinner table. Once you hang up the phone you go into
complete “I don’t know what we are going to do” mode. There is not enough food! There are no gifts under the tree for the
last minute guests! What is a person to
do!
Alas girlfriends,
as much as we try to have everything ready for the holiday season, something is
always going to arise that is unexpected.
The turkey can burn. You forget
to buy a gift for Great Aunt Mildred. You
are past exhausted from parties and practices.
The list can go on and on.
Why not
stop and breathe? Christmas is not about
frantically rushing around in a panic.
It is about our Savior Jesus Christ.
Why not share the Greatest Gift of all with your family and friends this
holiday season? Jesus.
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