The Holiday Season!

It seems like the Holiday Season starts earlier and earlier every year. You can find Christmas decorations and Halloween candy at the same time in our stores. Families are already making plans with times and logistics concerning Thanksgiving Day; whose house do we go to first? What time are we going to eat lunch and will I be hungry by dinner time? And oh yeah, who does Dallas and Detroit play this year? Don't get me wrong, I love this time of year and I don't mind the Holiday Season starting in the first of November. My concern is that this Season just gets filled with more of the same; only magnified; over spending, disengaged relationships, over obligated, heightened stress and busier schedules. We'll need a holiday to get over the Holidays. My simple word of advice: Slow down, take your time, enjoy your family, make time to express your gratitude to your loved ones as well as to the Lord. And by all means spend some meaningful time considering, or reconsidering that greatest of miracles that was and is Christmas and what that means for us today! God with us! Not over us or above us or in front of us or away from us, but WITH us! Now that's thank worthy and worth celebrating!