Holiday Prep

This week, we are officially entering the holiday season!

For some, this is a joyous time full of family, friends, delicious dinners, special church services, volunteerism, and festivities. For others, this is a time of stress, worry, fighting, resentment, and depression. At times it might even be a mix of both joy and frustration. Funny how people can experience the same exact things but have different and opposite reactions to them.

This year let’s all try to remember what these holidays are about. We all have something to be thankful for. No matter how much so-and-so gets on your nerves every year at the holiday dinner, be grateful that you have family and friends to sit with at your table. Somewhere, someone is mourning the loss of a loved one.

Don’t stress over trying to create a blockbuster year for your family this Christmas. Remember that the day is not about how many gifts we can give. It’s about the one gift that our Heavenly Father gave to us in His son. No wrapped present can top the eternal life that we all have through Jesus.

Let this holiday season be a time to reflect on the goodness of the Lord. Remember all that He has brought you through this year and in times past. Show love to your family and friends while you still have them with you. Take some time out to offer the love of Christ to the one who doesn’t know Him.

Remember to laugh and enjoy yourself. It’s the holidays. Have some fun.

Verse of the Day: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16