Christmas Revolution

Within our little family we had a Christmas Revolution a few years ago, and it has produced a multitude of blessings.   Here are a few, just off the top of my head.  I know there are so many more.

• Fewer toys to trip over on the floor
• Less hollering at the kids to clean up those same toys- multiple times a day
• Fewer dollars spent on meaningless things
• So more dollars may be freely given to charities in need.
• Less stress when the credit card statement comes and money is already tight from the increased heat bill during cold winter days.
• Less time shopping, although it is one of my loves, shopping out of obligation is something I despise
• Less time bickering over discussing what is the “perfect” gift to give to give to relatives we hardly know, because we only see less than a handful of times a year.
• Christmas day is spent playing games as a family, being together, enjoying each other.  It’s not spent in separate areas of the house playing with our new “things” by ourselves.
• MORE TIME TO FOCUS ON JESUS.  He is the reason, for the season.

My hope is that someday all of our Christmas celebrations are *truly* about Jesus.  I love getting together with our families.  But when it becomes about “having” to get together {and no one ever has the time, so we’re often just squeezing it in quick}, it doesn’t feel like it’s about Jesus at all.  That just feels like a burden.

Please my friends, do not be burdened by Christmas.  Not in a materialistic way, anyway.