Christmas Ponderings

So here we are dab in the center of another Christmas Season and as usual everyone is busy getting ready for the BIG day. Isn't it interesting that Christmas has evolved into a month long event? I always chuckle when someone asks me, "If I am ready for Christmas"... ready?... I have spent a whole month planning and running...ready? You mean for December 25th? If you haven't noticed there is way more things happening BEFORE the 25th than there is after. The 25th is the day that Christmas ends not begins. By the time the 25th rolls around all the Christmas parties are over, the shopping is done, except for those who wait until Boxing Day to return what they don't like and pick through the already picked over... ready? (What does that mean anyway?) December 25th will come like it does every year and we will do whatever it is that we do like we have done every year before and it will be just fine...ready or not.

As a kid, on Christmas Day we would wake up early, open our presents, have breakfast, figure out where the million pieces go and wonder why there were extra pieces ...I love Christmas, don't you? such fun especially when there was lots of snow...

I read somewhere a few weeks ago that there was only ONE Christmas and the rest are anniversaries. That statement caused me to stop and ponder...like a weddng? a birthday? an opening? There is one initial day and the ones to follow are times to remember the glory of, the history altering moment, the forever change, the day that you will always look back on with joy...the day when the course of the future, your future forever changed.

Most us do it every year, and we do it without thinking about it...for some reason we take Jesus and make Him a baby all over again. But we don't do that that on our anniversaries do we? When we come together on significant days in our lives we celebrate maturity, experience, accomplishments and successes. Maybe, that is what we need to be doing then this Christmas...instead of reducing Jesus to a needy, imbecilic baby, we need to rather see Him for who He really is...Savior, Lord, Healer, Friend...now that is something to ponder isn't it?

Merry Christmas

PB