FOR NOW

Greetings fellow readers and stalkers. I type this to you in the candlelit comfort of my little one-bedroom. Nearby, I hear a symphony of motorists humming by on Woodall Rogers to either get home or for that matter go Christmas shopping.

And let’s… for a few, brief paragraphs discuss this rapid (and I mean rapid) changing of the seasons. Christmas! Is it really here? Already- Good Lord, all the radio stations had to bite their nails off anticipating the very second to which they could start playing Bing Crosby. And here I feel “ba humbug” changing the station because I can’t get over the calendar month that it’s “Tis the Season to be Jolly fa la la la la la la la la” already.

Perhaps it would help some if I decorated the little one-bedroom just a tad. Maybe some of that canned spray faux snow on the windows (that would stick around till my lease is up). Maybe a hairy, red Dollar General stocking to hang on the mantle (if I even had a mantle for that matter). Or maybe I could finally just devour the canned cranberry sauce that is still sitting in my pantry since Thanksgiving (even if it does wiggle out all in one big cylinder shape). I know, I know. Mistletoe! Done-ha.

Would any of these things make it feel like Christmas time? Eh, maybe I’ll get started with a pine-tree scented candle. I just thought… or maybe just heard, that life was supposed to speed up when you got married and had kids. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to go?

Honestly, in the past few weeks I have woken up and thought, “Wow. It’s Thanksgiving” or “Wow. It’s my birthday” and rolled out of bed and then seemingly it’s just felt like another day… with the exception that it’s supposed to feel “special”. Granted, things with my family have been a little “off” this year having my grandfather in the hospital and our family being split up and such. But I’m just crossing my fingers that this particular holiday might be different… That the season wouldn’t pass my family, esp my mom, by so fast with the, “Wow. It’s Christmas” thought… and that be it.

My biggest hope would be for my family to easily be in the present and embrace the season that we look forward to so much throughout the year, without it being a stress or hassle.

SIGNED: EVERYTHING GOING ON IS NOW

“What does a worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men then to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his toil- this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him” (Ecc 3:9-14).