I like the line in the movie from A Muppet Christmas Carol when Scrooge asks the identity and origin
of the spirit of Christmas past; “…there
have been more than 1800 before me…” comes the reply. Christmas is a birthday celebration. Once a year,
every year, the date set aside to remember the birth of Jesus comes around.
But whether you celebrate Christmas for that reason and with
that focus or not, an annual celebration can
be considered a time to hit the reset button. We need it from time to time
anyway. A time to regroup and rest because life gets busy, difficult, we lose
sleep, we fight for policies and politics, we wrestle with our relationships
with family and friends, we suffer losses and health issues, we don’t know what
to do sometimes, we get tired. Even in the best of environments like we have
here in the United States for opportunity and advancement in our pursuit of
life, liberty, and happiness we still do life one day at a time and each day
brings only so much we can actually control.
So, as Christmas is here, the annual birthday celebration of
God becoming like us and paving the way to what a good and abundant life is
intended to be, let’s take the day to use it as a reset button. Let’s evaluate
our relationships, our time, our health, our passions and priorities, and most
of all our heart and soul. Solomon wrote that out of the heart come all the
other issues of life. So if my heart isn't doing well; if it’s stuck in a rut,
or overwhelmed with grief and sadness, or fearful or angry, or even selfish,
this could be the time of year to hit that reset button and re-evaluate how
it’s doing.
Even with the humble and lowly circumstances at that first
‘Christmas’ with the Son of God born as a human baby lying in a bed made from a
manger, the angels still partied in the skies saying, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and good will toward
men,” so, we too, can let the peace of
God which passes all human understanding fill our heart and mind with the knowledge
of God’s favor because He is for us!
Merry Christmas!
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