Sorry, everyone! I know I have only written two posts, but I honestly didn't even know people were following. I will do my best to keep my blog updated, ok? ok.
Well, it's Christmas Eve, yet it doesn't feel like Christmas at all. I've been trying to figure out why, and I've come up with many reasons:
1. Many of my good friends are away from home....the Holts, Colleen, Everett, etc.
2. This is my first Christmas in the midst of an actual job. I've been so used to Christmas breaks in college that it's definitely new to me to be working all the way up to Christmas eve and actually on Christmas Eve.
3. It's been a hard few months for me, especially with these last couple of weeks. I seem to be a little emotionally, spiritually, and physically tired.
4. I have heard so many heartbreaking stories of clients who walk into my office, especially today on Christmas eve. Hearing about the pain and suffering of so many people tends to wear on you.
5. Friends around me are hurting and going through a lot, and when I see this, my heart hurts as well.
Those are a few of the reasons that I could come up with, but mostly, I have this overwhelming feeling of discontentment. In my heart, I know that we (as a society) are doing Christmas entirely wrong. And I say "we" because I am a part of this, too. There is something majorly wrong when I have a client who walks into my office saying he's a single father with 4 children and nothing to give them for Christmas. Plus his water is shut off and his electricity will probably be shut off soon. Now, I know that there are children who are showered with presents on Christmas....I will get home and some how, despite the fact that things are tight financially, I will be given presents, materials things that my parents probably paid a lot of money to purchase. But why?
I don't want this post to seem at all negative toward Christmas. Christmas is an amazing time of the year because we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the one who sacrificed Himself so that we, who are so undeserving, could live. Praise God for His grace and unconditional love for us! When I think about what Christmas is all about, I realize that how we choose to spend our time and money during the Christmas season must make God pretty sad. I always hear people say that Christmas isn't about the gifts.....yet people spend tons of money, time, and energy on buying presents. We truly do forget the meaning behind Christmas.
This year I chose to make all of my gifts. They are nothing special, but I put my time and love into making them specifically for my loved ones. A friend of mine is writing letters to his family for Christmas, which may seem insignificant to some, but to put your love and feelings into a letter to a person is powerful. What if we chose to do Christmas this way? What if we chose to throw away the chaos and busyness that distracts us from what Christmas should be about? It would be difficult for sure, but I think there would be an insane amount of fruit.
To everyone in the blogging world, Merry Christmas, and I hope that you remember or find for the first time, the true meaning of Christmas.
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