Too Many Light? I Think Not!

It is a fact that we spend more time in getting ready for Christmas than for any other activity in our lives. Now, don’t tell that to the bride who just spent two years working on getting everything just right for her special day. But think about it. If you start getting ready, say the first of November when the ‘stuff’ comes out in all the stores that means you have been at it for, oh say, about seven weeks or, 53 days. Now if you’re as old as I am, and that’s old, you have spent from age five, 3180 days getting ready for Christmas.

I bet you didn’t realize all the time you have spent at this activity. In a week, we will have arrived at this year’s celebration of Christmas, of food, candy & chocolates, presents and most of all family. Yes, you still don’t like that wet kiss from Aunt Penelope or the too tight of a hug from grandpa. There might even be one of the relatives who you don’t talk to except for this one day. But it’s Christmas.

It’s the real reason of celebrating that catches our breath and gives us pause. We realize we might be that person who isn’t looking too wonderful in God’s eyes. Yes, so much like our real lives isn’t it? In spite of how God sees us, He loves us anyway. He loves us so much, He sent His Son into a very dark world just to brighten it up, just as we feebly put up all those lights in and on our homes.

In January, we take them down, put them in boxes and tuck them away for another ten months. But don’t do that this year. Let God’s light that shines in you, continue to shine in all of this coming year. Jesus told us, that He was the light of the world just before He told us that we to are the light of the world. This year, all 365 day, carry Christmas & Jesus Christ with you as you “let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven”.   That good deed may be something as simple as smiling at someone so they can smile to.

Something to think about

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

Rob