It’s the Week Before Christmas and All is at Rest

It’s the week before Christmas and all is at rest. 

 Wouldn’t that be lovely? To rest in this beautiful time of year? 

I really enjoy sitting on the couch with only the Christmas tree lights on, preferably white. I finally won my children over from colored. The white lights are so peaceful to me.

How often do I take the time to rest and enjoy my tree?

Not often enough, the list of things to do is too long. Who still needs gifts? What will the gifts be? What about the annual Christmas letter? Gifts to send to family far away should be gone already and they’re not done either.

It is a struggle to rest in the midst of all these extra demands.

I’m getting better. Rest has to be important enough to make time and room for.  That means other things have to be adjusted, reduced, or even eliminated.  

I also realized this morning I have not been taking time to meditate on the richness of God’s gifts to me. We often say God’s greatest gift was Jesus being born. That is really only the beginning of the story.

All the wonderful gifts God has for us are only possible because Jesus followed the plan through death to be resurrected and glorified.

How lost do His great gifts to us become in the midst of all the holiday traditions and demands? In trying to prepare gifts and treats I am missing out on rest. I am missing out on the reason I say we are celebrating. I can struggle not to lose Jesus in the holiday preparations.

Jesus came and that changed everything. It’s worth celebrating.

It is worth so much more than celebrating. It’s worth changing for, living for, dying for. He did. Will I? Will you?

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