The Christmas Anti-Climax

Well... Christmas is finally over!

Another year of overspending, stress-filled days (if not weeks), and broken promises to one's self that "next year will be different."

In the aftermath of the hurried gift openings, the squeals and delights, the disappointments (no one admits to them) and all the preparation, are we really satisfied that all this commercialism is the right thing to do given all the misgivings when it's all over? How can we break free of all the hype? All the commercials on TV? All the billboards? All the pop-up ads on the computer?

I have no clear answers to this dilemma. But what I have learned is to spend within my means and just to be grateful for what I can do. What I can't do any more is worry over what I can't do.

There is a clear difference between a person's needs and their desires. A Loving God provides for all my needs. It's my desires which cause all the turmoil in my life. So if I can't do or have all that I desire, then I better be grateful for what I have and what I can do. Anything less is misery... and we just can't have that.

After all... It's Christmas!!! I am hoping yours was blessed with good tidings, great friends and more Love than you can handle. That is truly the spirit of Christmas and we should reflect upon such things and know that in the final analysis, it's all that really matters.