The Day After!

That’s right! Christmas is over! The mad rush to buy gifts, the family get-togethers, the stress of receiving many guests into your home, the cooking, the cleaning, and now, comes the clean-up! These holidays can be truly overwhelming.  So what does one do the day after? Well, for the Christian, we do the same thing today. “This is the day that Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalms 118:24)” “I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth (Psalms 34:1).” For the Christian, Christmas is not just a holiday. It is a lifestyle. We celebrate the Lord Jesus every day. We have a daily “attitude of gratitude.”  So in reality, for us, Christmas is a daily reality!. Let the celebration continue…………

.Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

 

As we gather during these holidays, remember this…

As we gather during these holidays, we will see people we normally do not see throughout the year. When we converse with them, we say things like: “We should meet like this more often;” or, “I haven’t seen you in ages,” and other comments like that.

It’s really unfortunate that we allow work, “busyness,” projects, and other things to get in the way of important relationships. I have noticed that even families complain about the lack of relationship time.

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