Sometimes it is hard to find ourselves in such a busy schedule. Busy in part because we often neglect what we should hold as priority which is our fault, and partly because that is the world we live within today. Busy! Busy! Busy! Go! Go! Go! It is hard to come up for air and set boundaries that are necessary for sanity because we are trying so hard to keep up with the pace of life. Especially with the holidays before us we can see the insanity of our culture beginning to grow already only a few days past Halloween as it always does this time of year (and earlier and earlier it seems), and all for the cause of having ‘special family time.’ But is this the way life is supposed to be lived?
What happens to ‘family special time’ the rest of the year? How many families end up with hard feelings after the holidays because somebody’s traditions got stepped on or flat out forgotten? Or somebody didn’t make the usual dish that was considered a favorite to someone or one part of the family got invited that other parts of the family wished were left out. On the surface the holidays seem a happy time of year, and for many they are, but for many it is a pure headache desperately wishing the holiday season passes quickly.
I want to encourage us this year to focus not so much on the silly traditions of the holidays, but the reason we even have these holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas to begin with. Let our gratitude show in the way we treat others, not just family members, but those in check-out lines, customer service, convenient stores, etc. Also, remember that the greatest thing we have to be thankful for is a Savior born to us. So this Thanksgiving and Christmas, even though we are still a few weeks away, let our hearts be filled with love and kindness first towards our Creator and then to those created in His-Image.
Matthew 7:12
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
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