"Tis the season"... to be with family, friends and loved ones. "Tis the season"... to bake, decorate, shop, host, wrap, give, and receive. "Tis the season"... for carols, parties, get togethers and travel. "Tis the season"... to love, be loved, need and be needed. "Tis the season"... to live the magic, gaze at the lights and expect mysteries. "Tis the season"... to know why?
Our Savior is the reason.
When you have family, friends and loved ones around you...think of our Blessed Mother Mary. Mary, not more than a mere child herself who was scared and alone, yet loved and trusted God so much that she agreed to be alone and afraid to bring forth her son our Lord.
When you bake, think of the hungry both now and when Mary made her journey. Savor each cookie as if it were all there was. Decorate your space, not for the neighbors but for Jesus who will be a guest in our homes. Shop but don't engage in greed, remember those less fortunate. Don't ask for more than you need. Wrap and give gifts that are from your heart and hands. Make your gifts those that keep giving; so they emulate our Father's love, which is unceasing. When you receive, give thanks.
When you sing, do so as if in great prayer. Fill the room with the sound of voice reaching unto the Heavens. When you go to parties, dinners and get togethers think of "The Last Supper" which our Lord will be at sometime after his Christmas birth; when the parties end. When you travel fall to your knees at night before retiring and be with a glad heart that you arrived safely, in comfort and that there was "Room for you" when you got there.
When you love do so with your whole heart. When you want to be loved open your soul. When you need unconditional love, look to Our Father for he will fill your empty heart. Remember that HE wants nothing more than to be loved, needed and accepted by you.
When you look for magic in the season enjoy the world around you but do not forget the great mystery of faith. Faith that by it's very definition is a belief in the unseen and sometimes intangible. It is the knowledge that in your heart you know what is just and true. If you can believe in Santa, wish for things you have not seen; with hope to receive... Then receive HIM, believe in HIM and you will always have faith. Have the faith to gaze into the sky at the starry lights that guided the shepherds years ago and know that the same presence that lead them, will lead you in the right way.
Christmas Magic is always in Season because it is not just a season...All year "Tis the season" to be Holy, give thanks and to believe.
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