As she mentions in her post , she came from a home where the Christmas memories were few and far between, because of that, her heart is very sensitive to the strife and competition that many people allow themselves to get trapped in during the Christmas season. Thank you, Nicole, for sharing what is on your heart this Christmas season. I pray that everyone reading this takes a moment to make sure that they are remembering the real reason for Christmas...
I LOVE Christmas, I truly do from the bottom of my heart...
However, I also loathe what some people do to Christmas.
I get tired of people comparing how many gifts their kids got, who spent what,
whether it was too much or not enough.
Every mom secretly wants to give their child everything they want
and stuff it under the tree.....We all do.
It goes against our mommy instincts to give less but often less is BEST!
Our children don’t need everything they want...
What they need is love, compassion and grace like God has shown us.
There are parents who argue about whether or to not tell your kids about Santa.
Are we a bad parent because we make a Jesus cake and tell our kids the presents came from us ... ? Are we worse parent if we allow them to believe in Santa?
Christmas should be the most wonderful time of the year.
The lights, the trees, the songs, the giving, the kindness in our hearts....
And for Christians it marks the birth of OUR SAVIOR.
What is there not to love?
How can we pick petty differences when the city is light up in all it’s small town glory?
How can we fight about Santa when kids everywhere are giddy about lists they have made?
Why is Christmas used as one more way to divide rather than one more way to unite?
In each of our heads we envision our “perfect” Christmas...what we feel is perfect for us.
As a child who never had the “white picket fence” life, I dreamed of giving
that life to my children for as long as I can remember.
Cinnamon rolls in the morning....gifts around the tree with Christmas music playing...
and a warm fire burning.
It may not be everything they wanted but just enough to give them what I never had.
I love a slow Christmas...
A Christmas that is enjoyed from start to finish.
When the morning peaks in...the house smells a smell that brings delight to your senses.
I love looking at the lights and hearing the joy and excitement in the car.
The little things, like wreaths on everyone’s door that looks so welcoming.
I love nativity scenes and that my kids scream in delight when they see baby Jesus!
Christmas is about a birth...a beautiful birth that should fill our hearts with joy
so full that is spills out onto every disagreement, every unloving person with such force that we can't even slow our love, joy and grace that pours out.
My Christmas wish is for it to be more about love...less about separation.
More about giving, less about wanting.
More about JESUS, less about comparing.
I want everyone to love and embrace being different.
To share the gospel of a Child that was born to be a Savior.
To share love to the unloveable and give to those in need.
Merry Christmas!
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