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Ugly Christmas Sweaters
I love Thanksgiving.
I hope all of you had a great one.
We went to Tucson to spend the time w/ Sara’s family.
Her dad, brother and fam.
I think Thanksgiving is the perfect guy holiday.
Sleep in.
Get up in the morning and start eating.
Sara put out a Charcuterie board.
Whatever that means.
Veggie tray, cheese & crackers, Meat.
We start early.
When the dumb parade is finally over, football starts.
All day.
The Lions get killed and the Cowboys disappoint.
Every year.
But, it’s football.
Then a night game.
So we eat, watch football, fall asleep, wake up, rinse and repeat.
Until it’s time to go to bed.
Tell me how the day could be made better?
Then, it’s right into the Christmas season.
There is so much good and beauty about the season.
I love the decorations.
Linda, everyone did such a beautiful job w/ the church.
Sara does beautiful work in our house.
Throughout the month there are extra parties, more time w/ family and friends, and all sorts of special events that include more food, more to drink, and desserts!
Oh the sugar!
This is the time of year when so much beauty comes out.
But it’s also the time of year when so much ugly comes out.
Sweaters!
Am I right?!
But sweaters aren’t the only ugly things to come out during the Christmas season.
All those beautiful things have an ugly side.
I love seeing our house decorated.
I hate bringing the boxes of decorations out of storage, up the stairs, one at a time, 100 boxes and bins of Xmas.
Then, all the stuff Sara takes down go into the boxes and bins and I have to carry them back downstairs.
Bah humbug!
The thoughts going thru my mind!
Do we really need all this stuff?
Is there a Jesus in here anywhere?
If the house burned down I’m not saving any of this stuff.
The mind goes.
The food is so good.
And the desserts!
The sugar!
This is the time of year when we measure our weight not by lbs, but my seconds.
IOW.
stand in front of a mirror, stomp your foot hard, and count the number of seconds it takes for things to stop jiggling.
The thoughts that go thru your mind about how you look and how you feel.
After that second or third dessert do you really feel good?
We can always buy larger sweaters.
New Year’s resolutions are already being planned for the diet and exercise because we’ve eaten so much this month.
Swear we will cut back.
Wait, is that chocolate?
And do you know how much sugar is in the adult beverages you’re drinking?
Eggnog?
Rum.
They take the sugarcane, water it up, wring it out and call it rum.
Wine.
It’s not hard liquor.
It is calorie laden!
And you know alcohol is a stimulant, right?
It may knock you out but you won’t sleep well.
It will keep you up at night.
We overeat, maybe over drink, can’t sleep at night, and tomorrow you’re going to be in a house full of your favorite relatives!
That is a recipe for disaster.
The thoughts that go thru your mind.!
If you have the self-control to keep your thoughts to yourself, by the time New Years rolls around you will be an emotional wreck.
Ugly thoughts will mess you up.
Is it time to be thinking of another New Year’s resolution about what you think about your family?
If you let those thoughts out of your head and off your teeth, napalm didn’t do as much damage as you can do to your family.
So, then, your thoughts about yourself, thoughts about your family, lack of sleep, feeling more stuffed than your Thanksgiving bird; maybe it’s time to tell your best friend what they’ve needed to hear for a long time.
It’s your responsibility as their friend.
So another New Year’s resolution.
Find a new best friend.
The scorched earth damage that can be done during the most wonderful time of the year.
Either we implode or everything around us explodes.
All b/c of the ugly thoughts that can come to mind during the season.
Is there a Jesus in here anywhere?
We come by this naturally.
We are naturally a negative lot.
All of us are drawn to assume, observe, and think about what’s wrong.
The reason for all the gatherings, all the food, all the desserts, all the parties is Jesus’s birthday.
It’s a monthlong baby shower.
Focus on the Nativity.
B/C, the nativity will take away our negativity and bring beauty out of the ashes we create when we let our ugly thoughts scorch the earth around us.
This is not the easiest thing for us to do.
But b/c of what Jesus did, beginning with His birth, he made hard things like this possible.
That’s what the Nativity represents.
Making hard things possible.
Mary conceived w/out being intimate w/ a man.
Joseph loved her and married her anyway, w/out becoming so jealous he couldn’t.
Jesus was born healthy, in a stable, w/out the help of a midwife, Mary’s mom or aunt or any other woman, just Joseph.
The germs, the sites, and smells; the ugliness of the place.
God did the impossible.
He took something that was naturally ugly and made it beautiful w/ the birth of His Son, our Savior.
Let’s start w/ out we start out.
Why are we naturally prone to negativity and ugliness.
Who We Were
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