Christmas is my favorite time of the year! Just ask my husband or my family. It is so much fun to decorate (I'll be posting a picture of my tree once we get it up!), to bake, to buy gifts for people, and, of course, to receive gifts.
But, Christmas represents so much more. It's easy to become overwhelmed when the media and the stores constantly throw advertisements in our faces wanting us to buy buy buy. But there are so many people who will not have a Christmas. I cannot even begin to fathom how it would feel to wake up on Christmas morning and not have ANY presents under the tree from ANYONE. My family has been fortunate enough to never have to deal with this situation, but I recently became aware of the reality.
Yesterday, I helped my mom carry in two huge garbage bags full of toys for a Salvation Army child from their Angel Tree program. Her social studies class had collected the objects, and my mom had purchased several items as well. When we handed the bags over to the Wal-Mart worker, her face lit up and said "Someone's going to have a nice Christmas." I held in my hands a little kid's Christmas morning. I was moved. God slapped me in the face because I had been worried all morning about what I was going to purchase for someone. He was like, "Hey you! This is all this kid will get. Be grateful."
Just be grateful...
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