The Day After Christmas
Posted on Dec 26, 2009 at 11:43 am under Holiday.
All of the packages have been opened, the food is still settling and December’s purchases becomes January’s payments.
As I was loading and unloading Jo’s car for the upteenth time last night as we rolled back into Hazel Green I was a little frustrated. Putting bags, packages and other items in and out of the car. Then it hit me. This is only twice a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas)! Shut up and grow up was my thought! Zeke will only be this age once. Our parents are getting older and it is our time to make the repeated trips back and forth because “we can.”
I heard a pastor years ago say these words that have rung true in my heart for a long time: “How big is your want to?” That applies to anything in life. “How big is your want to?” So, I write these words today with my family and your family in mind. Go ahead and do whatever it takes to make this time of year the best time of year. Mortality will catch up with all of us. There will be a last Christmas with parents, there will be last year the kids believe in Santa and there will be “regrets.”
One of our responsibilities as Christ-followers is to live the Spirit-filled life. A life lived as best we can under the authority of the Word that will help us put this thing called “life” in its proper perspective. Friend, enjoy your journey. Invest in your family and friends like there is no tomorrow. Life can have a tendency to produce a “series of goodbyes.” Let’s make sure when “goodbye” comes, you have no “regrets.”
Finish this year with all forgiven and go forward for the glory of God. Don’t live with the regret of a past consumed with what doesn’t matter.
PJ