Within our little family we had a Christmas Revolution a few years ago, and it has produced a multitude of blessings. Here are a few, just off the top of my head. I know there are so many more.
- Fewer toys to trip over on the floor
- Less hollering at the kids to clean up those same toys- multiple times a day
- Fewer dollars spent on meaningless things
- So more dollars may be freely given to charities in need.
- Less stress when the credit card statement comes and money is already tight from the increased heat bill during cold winter days.
- Less time shopping, although it is one of my loves, shopping out of obligation is something I despise
- Less time bickering over discussing what is the “perfect” gift to give to give to relatives we hardly know, because we only see less than a handful of times a year.
- Christmas day is spent playing games as a family, being together, enjoying each other. It’s not spent in separate areas of the house playing with our new “things” by ourselves.
- MORE TIME TO FOCUS ON JESUS. He is the reason, for the season.
My hope is that someday all of our Christmas celebrations are *truly* about Jesus. I love getting together with our families. But when it becomes about “having” to get together {and no one ever has the time, so we’re often just squeezing it in quick}, it doesn’t feel like it’s about Jesus at all. That just feels like a burden.
Please my friends, do not be burdened by Christmas. Not in a materialistic way, anyway.
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