You say you can’t do this?
Not another Christmas season! I’m still worn out from the last one!
Yet, the calendar turns like the tumbling of fallen leaves in the winter wind. Like skipping stones across a glassy pond, the minutes, hours, and days skitter ahead … seemingly without rhyme or reason.
We trudge toward the Big Day, dreading the parties, the well-wishers, and each gift we must give. We’re tired of it already.
Here’s the trick (or solution, if you wish) to making this season the best it can be: Do a few small things to make other people’s lives better.
Forget about you having a great holiday, a jolly Christmas, or a memorable experience that will make the effort worth it. This year make your Christmas efforts about the other guy.
Accept that your holiday is already shattered by your broken attitude, but your nieces are excited, your co-workers are ramped up, and they deserve your best effort.
Here’s how Acts 20:35 says it:
“In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
So, go ahead, wrap that basketball for your favorite nephew. Your holiday is shot, but his will be the best ever.
Give in and host the office party. You can mope behind your smile, but your co-workers will praise you for your generosity all year long.
Send that Christmas card even if you don’t feel like it. Put extra red coloring in your cake’s icing. Take the time to write “With all my love” on your gift tags.
One minute at a shot. One hour at a time. One day under your belt. The holiday season is within your grasp when you remember the words of Jesus:
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Practice it starting now. Today. Give a piece of candy … a soda … a dollar … a card … a smile. Hold the door, the elevator, a conversation, your word … are you seeing it? It’s not hard.
Take that first step. This might become your best Christmas ever.
When we give our love away, it returns in an avalanche of goodwill.
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