HOLY COW its Christmas...

I don't know about you but this Christmas has just come and gone! It is one of those holidays that seems like it will never come and then before you wake up for your Christmas tradition, it has already passed you by. This Christmas was a different one for me. It was the first Christmas that I haven't spent it with my family. Instead I spent it with two other families. As I sat back and observed and spent time with these two families who were opening gifts and were gracious enough to invite me over, I began to get a bitter and almost an angry spirit within me. You see people with their families, laughing and spending time with each other, and I began to build this angry spirit within because I was sad that I couldn't be home. HOW SELFISH OF ME!!! I then thought how this attitude is the very thing that the enemy has used and is using across our world today. This selfish, angry, bitter attitude has ruined Christmas for many people. Isn't Christmas about worshiping our God, about spending time with the people we care about, about thinking NOT just about you, but about others??? I had the opportunity to spend my Christmas this year with two families that I deeply care about and love. Yet I couldn't stop thinking about myself and MY Christmas.... I couldn't stop and think of the blessing that I had to be able to spend Christmas with somebody, and the opportunity I had to be a blessing to two families. I don't know how you feel, but I want to be a blessing to others; I want to be someone that serves other people and doesn't live inside a selfish bubble. Christmas is about YOU being a blessing....NOT about you receiving one. Be a blessing to someone this season!!