We still don’t have our tree up. There are boxes from Toys R Us and Amazon stacking up in the living room. I haven’t even begun to bake. The Christmas cards haven’t even been picked up from Wal-Mart’s photo center. And all of the wonderful books we usually read Christmas week are still at the library (or already checked out by moms who are much betting at planning ahead than I).
So what’s a mom to do?
Breathe and reboot.
This coming week, we will work hard at getting ready to celebrate our Savior’s birth. We will exchange gifts with friends, mail our Christmas cards, bake some cookies, decorate the tree, and read. We have plenty of books about Christmas on our shelves, but more importantly, we have Luke, chapter 2.
The tree may not be the best decorated and we may have to skip all the crafts and extra decorations this year.
But we will have Christmas JOY. We will remember. We will probably even cry as we think about past Christmases with Nana.
But most of all we will celebrate the One. The One without whom we wouldn’t even have this blessed season.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ~Isiaah 9:6
May you find JOY in this Christmas season, whatever your circumstances.
