I like this time of year.
It’s cooler, I can bust out my boots and scarves, and have
an excuse to drink a hot cup of coffee in the middle of the day. I do enjoy the
holiday season when I keep in mind what this holiday is truly about. One main
way that society does celebrate and participate in this holiday is to buy gifts
for each other. Where did that concept even came from? I’m not really sure. In
the Nativity story, the wise men brought gifts to our baby Savior years ago. So
I guess that somehow got changed throughout the years to US getting the gifts
and our Savior getting absolutely nothing. Hmm...
Again, not sure how that ended up happening. But as a
grateful woman for the gifts that I have received in
Christmas’ past and that I will receive this year, there are only a few things
I really do want for Christmas.
Here are a few:
(I am forewarning you: this section has
nothing to do with political partisan). I sincerely do want world peace. It also
may come across as a cliché wish but I truly do desire this as a gift for
Christmas. The fact that there are countries in this world that are still
killing each other while other countries are not willing to help other struggling
countries saddens me. I won’t get specific on what countries or even which foreign
policy is in action right now that allows this to happen, but I do believe it
should be addressed. Why can’t we all just get along? I’m sure we will all live
in a happier world. Just sayin.
2. More Responsible and Loving Parents In The World
As I have mentioned in previous blog posts, I am currently employed because
there are parents in this world that fail to take responsibility for their own
children and make decisions in their own lives that directly affect how their
children think, act, and behave. There are children and teenagers in this world
that do not know how to make the right decisions in life because they never had
a parent to role model that way of thinking for them. Because of that, they are
in jail, homeless, have mental health issues, or involved in substance abuse.
Why can’t we all just be responsible and take accountability for our own
actions and take care of our own dang children? Less children would be in
foster care and on the streets, and more would be employed, educated, and know
how to love themselves and others.
3. No Debt
I
am truly grateful to have had a college experience in a great Christian college
on a beautiful campus with amazing and challenging professors. I am so grateful
for those years that I established lasting friendships, fell in love,
discovered more about myself, and gained a good college education. But I am not
grateful for the debt that I am now in. What I want for Christmas is for my
thousands and thousands of dollars of debt to be forgiven as a “Thank-You-For-Serving-Our-Community-and-Doing-Some-Good-In-This-World”.
Is that too much to ask?
Okay I’m going
to bust out a statistic that will sadden you a bit. According to a World Hunger
website, there are 870 million people do not have enough to eat and 98 percent of them live in developing
countries (www.wfp.org/hunger/stats). Food tastes too amazing for 870 million people to
miss out on. They deserve to experience the happiness and satisfaction that
food provides…. and they can’t. It’s saddening and sickening. What I want for
Christmas is for everyone in the world to experience the best possible feeling…
a full stomach.
(Again,
no political partisan here!!) A couple
of weeks ago, I was watching the morning show and they had said a sad statistic
about how recent college students from the last 3 years are still looking for
work and how it may not get any better. My heart felt heavy when I heard that.
I got a job right out of college and an even better job 7 months after that and
I must say, it feels freaking amazing to be an employed woman in society. It’s
not fun sending out resumes, researching, interviewing, and getting rejected
after so much work and prayer being put in the process. Not fun at all. What I
want for Christmas is for every willing and able person that actually
desires employment to GET THE SAME THING.
Enough said.
I am a born and
raised Christian believer and I must say, it is my favorite thing about myself.
Having the hope that I have a Heavenly Father that is in complete control of my
life only after I give Him permission to do so is a wonderful feeling. Having a
Heavenly Father that ONLY wants what is best for me even though I am not able
to see what He has planned for me. Having the faith that what He is doing and
will do in my life is going to rock is the best feeling in the world. Knowing
that I have a Heavenly Father that is still willing to accept me back in His
sweet family and continue to call me His daughter even after I mess up leaves
me speechless. Why can’t everyone feel that same way? It is sad about how many
people in the world do not know about this and about Christ. Or even worse,
they know this but reject it every single day. What I want for Christmas is for
more people to accept and love Jesus. It makes life better, simple as that.
These few things on my Christmas Wish List are a lot to ask
for and I'm aware of that. But in this holiday season, lets keep in mind what truly is important and
why we celebrate this holiday. Lets keep our Heavenly Father in mind and that
He sent His own Son to come down and die for us lame, sick, selfish, bozo
heads in the form of a baby boy. Instead of keeping our focus on Mariah Carey Christmas songs and gingerbread
houses (which are fun!!), lets keep our focus on what we are called to do in
this world, DO GOOD, LOVE EACH OTHER, and SHOW JESUS TO OTHERS. If you do all
of this, it will feel like Christmas EVERY DAY.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
