CHRISTmas Plans

Reflections of Christmas Past

 December 2003

This year since we weren’t visiting family, I had planned to make it a special Christmas by thinking of others and focusing more on Jesus. But I didn’t accomplish everything I wanted to. My two oldest boys were in a musical which ran until the 21st of December and after that I was in “do nothing” mode. I had wanted to take gifts to our local hospital on Christmas Day, have a birthday party for Jesus and just spend some special family devotion time. None of that happened. I was a little saddened by the fact that Christmas didn’t seem “Special” this year. There wasn’t ENOUGH focus on Jesus, so I thought.

But now that I look back on it we did do a lot. We filled up three shoe boxes of toys for Samaritan’s Purse to give to children overseas. We wrote letters to Jesus on Christmas Eve and put them in our stockings (our family tradition), we managed to read many of our Christmas books, we put the Christmas “Adornaments” on the tree in the boys’ room, we made a paper prayer chain that counted down the days til Christmas and New Years and each link had a name of someone we prayed for and I did make cookies a month earlier and froze them for Christmas. And we managed to get out and see Christmas lights on Christmas Day. So I guess we did do alot this Christmas!!!

So next year I’ll try and remember that we don’t have to do everything on my family fun Christmas list. In fact, I think the less we do the more relaxed the family is and the more fun and love we have for each other. And isn’t that what Christmas is all about anyway?

“For God so loved the world that he gave His only son, that who ever believes in Him should not persih, but have everlasting life.” John 3″16