I've been making lots of messes in the kitchen this week because that's what I like to do best. Baking and Christmas go together like Coffee and 1st hour.
I've gone caroling not once but twice. On the first occasion the neighbors were rather startled to find young ladies clothed in 1800's clothing singing Christmas tunes on their porch.
There has been lots of shopping done as well and it seems all the store clerks feel obligated to ask such questions as which I high school I'm going too. Ahem, never mind that I've been graduated for several years.
Cheesy Christmas movies have been playing too and they make us laugh, but never make us cry as they are intended to do.
I got to go to a family gathering and it was lovely to see my cousins. Strange too, because now the traditional program has less of piano pieces and more of sharing of the lost loved ones. Two uncles, one aunt, and our grandma.
Tonight none of my brothers will be here to fulfill Christmas Eve traditions. They are married with their own families, so now it is time to be spontaneous and plan new exciting traditions. Like watching It's a Wonderful Life with my two very lively aunts. I think it should be a delightful evening.
In the midst of all of this holiday business there has been added stress. Grandma fell 4 times this week and the last fall put in her the ER at 11:00 at night. We are thankful that Grandma is resting comfortably with no broken bones in her care home. Just a few doors away from grandma her cousin lies in a bed hardly aware of the surroundings around her. The daughters keep watch by the bed and we wonder if grandma's cousin will truly be home for Christmas.
Maybe Christmas this year has had some unplanned things. Christmas though is not about what happens or doesn't happen. It's about what we are stopping to remember the start of life on earth that would eventually be given to save our own lives. Remember this instead of remembering that your Christmas shopping still isn't done and you have forgotten to make the ridiculously traditional pluma moos.
"who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross".
(Philippians 2:6-8 ESV)
(Philippians 2:6-8 ESV)
And that's why Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year.
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