Hazy days of Christmas

It is now the 26th of December. The wrapping paper is crumpled, the bows are stashed for next year and the tree sits lonely, looking lost, as though it is tired and ready to be put away. Funny how we expend so much time for the preparation of the magnificent Celebration, and then it is over.

Isn't much of life like this? Hurry, hurry to get to a place in our lives and then find we need to begin again. We arrive at our destination feeling as though there should be more and yet...

Celebration is the key, I am coming to find. If we could make celebration the theme of our lives, we would be in a constant state of preparation. It is where we thrive best--in the midst of prepartion. And if in the preparation, we could stay in tune to our inner Soul, we would find there, the greater sense of Presence. We would find we are communing as One with that Greater Source of Love and Power and Strength-God alone. In the midst of our busyness and our loneliness and our confusion, the One we are preparing for becomes evident. He is there, waiting to prepare with us, to celebrate with us, and ultimately to gift us with His Love and Presence.

So the reason for the season: Preparation, Celebration and Salvation. Amen!