My Hummingbird Cafe

I hope you enjoy the merriment around you this Christmas Season. Please remember the reason for this season and what impact the birth of our Lord has on your life.

What plans have you made for celebrating Christmas this year? Do you plan to spend time with your family, to make connections with people you haven’t seen much of this past year or in years past, or do you plan on doing anything special at all this year?

If you do not believe in Jesus being the Christ, the savior and redeemer of all mankind, then may I ask what do you think of him? Do you believe that there is any real supreme being that governs the universe, or do you believe our life on earth is just an accident with no real meaning?

I ask these questions because I am curious about what people think of the Christmas season. I want to understand why people are so put off by those who believe in Jesus Christ and yet they celebrate the season. These people take holiday pay, they participate in the celebrations, and they participate in gift giving, they even set up a Christmas tree, but they do not believe in the birth of the Lord. I cannot understand participating in Christmas celebrations and all the amenities but they do not believe in the reason for the season.

I ask this, because I am truly wanting to gain an understanding of this phenomenon. I am not asking because I am in judgment of people who do not believe or to start a discussion or an argument. I am truly wanting to understand.

I know why the Jews do not recognize Jesus Christ, but they DO NOT celebrate Christmas. I am NOT talking about Jews, I am talking about people who say they don’t believe in God, in the Savior, or in anything relating to religion, yet they have no problem participating in all the festivities. That, to me, is dishonest. If they celebrate because everybody else does, I can probably accept that position, but not someone claiming to be atheist and yet choosing to celebrate anyway. It seems contradictory to me.

Now, for something more light-hearted. What do you want for Christmas?

• I want people to be more aware of each other’s needs,
• I want Congress to pay closer attention to what the people want instead of what they want.
• I want children to be more respectful of their parents and others.
• I want to live closer to my children and grandchildren.
• I want my book to reach the hands of many more people and have it help them.
• I want my writing to be better.
• I want to be of more service to people and to understand their needs better.
• I want enough money to cover my personal needs and then take whatever I have left (which needs to be enough to be useful) to help people who are not flakes but just gets hit by life. If they can pay it back, then great but if not, then so be it.
• I want my husband to keep treating me as nice as he is this Christmas season.
• I want to have the time, money, and space to paint and have more training and skill to paint what I want to paint.
• I want to have unlimited time to do all the things I want to do without having to fix dinner, clean house, pay bills, answer the phone, run errands, and all the other duties that keep me from doing what I want to do and need to do.

Now that you’ve read all of my wants for Christmas and recognize that none or all of these wishes are unrealistic, as I also recognize, I want you to know that these are the precious desires of my heart. If you could have a magic wand that would give you any of your precious desires of the heart, what would you ask for?

After you make your unrealistic wish list, I would like you to examine it. Ask yourself what this list says about you and who your are inside. Is there anything about what you see something that you would like to change?  If so, how much effort will you put into making a change?

We are entering the first of a new year, a time for making “New Year Resolutions”. I hope you will put the changes you saw on that list and work on it over the year. If you don’t make the changes you want to make, take a look at how much of a change you did make.  If you made any movement at all towards that resolution, then recognize that you have changed. It may not be to the degree that you wanted but at least you have moved towards it and that is good. I applaud you!  Good for you, keep it up!

I hope this next year brings you more of what you want. I also hope this Christmas season will be a blessing to youand your family and friends — and try to keep warm.