Go Go Go
So when you start something new or even in your daily tasks, do you have these amazing thoughts of where it will go, how it will work, that it will come together great and be everything you hoped for with very little or minimal bumps along the way? I DO.
Jeff and I have been in a long-standing discussion of my 'to-do' lists and the expectations I put on myself. It's interesting that the expectations I do put on myself tend to me unrealistic (though seem completely attainable at the time) and so I go and go and go (usually trying to do it in my own power) and feeling like I do when I'm swimming; using a lot of energy and yet not moving anywhere I want quickly. Pondering this ... doesn't it boil down to priorities? What really should our priorities be? And even if our priorities are right, how busy is too busy? What can be left off the 'to-do' list? I understand that this will be different for every person but Christmas is pulling into our yards and close to knocking at our doors so the time is here where busyness happens and priorities tend to be forgotten.
Something I'm going to try to keep more in the front of my mind this Christmas season. And let's not forget the wonderful cliche "Jesus is the Reason for the Season"
Ashlee
posted by Jeffrey and Ashlee Thomas @ 9:48 p.m.
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I agree that Christmas tends to get filled with busyness. Whatever happened to when we were children and Christmas seemed to take forever to get here. Now we blink and it's breathing down our necks. I know that's a terrible, grinch-like way of looking at it, but that's what it feels like.
One way my husband and I have cut back on Christmas time busyness is with gift shopping. Neither of us likes to shop and it takes up a lot of time, money, and stress (the malls are so busy, the parking lots so full), So we seriously slashed our gift buying list to only a handful of people. They are people that we know well enough to know what they would like. It makes shopping for them much more enjoyable instead of just a name on a list.
Another thing that helps us slow down is that, enevitably my husband gets sick or crashes (physically). He pushes so hard through fall/hunting season that come December his body says enough - which means we are forced to slow down. As hard as it is to see him crash it kinda makes the whole holiday time more enjoyable - we have an excuse to say no to things and spend lots of quite time with just each other.
Slow down. Enjoy singng Christmas carols. Bake some cookies on a cold winter night. Snuggle. Watch a Christmas special together. Laugh. Make a snow angel. And remember, if it doesn't get done today the world is not going to end! God did not make us to be human-doings, but human-beings. Take the time to enjoy BEING around those you care about.
I'll get off my soap box now. :)
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