This Holy Season

     Christmas is inching towards us and this year, I'm going to take it slow. Every time this Holy Season comes upon us, I hurry around like I haven't any time to spare. Really, I don't, but it's the quality of the time I'm changing. I'm going to concentrate on the real reason we are celebrating the greatest magnificent Birth of our Lord. I think I've become a Scrooge each year more and more because of the advertisements and displays that seem to appear earlier and earlier. Making sure people spend that money. Losing the content and true meaning of the Reason for the Season. We barely get done with the last Holiday and there are items insinuating that it's time to buy, buy, buy. Well, not this year. I'm not even going to put up my tree for a while yet, because somehow my heart even lost the true meaning of that. It's to remind us of the wood of the cross. Yet be joyful in our reminder that the colored lights are a joyful and redeeming Cross. Lest we forget, why that Sweet Child Jesus was born. To welcome a different wood. The wood of the Cross. 

     My Nativity scene will surely be put out now, so I can stop and take some time to gaze at the wonderful meaning of a Child born out of Love and Humility, with straw as His bedding, and the animals as His company. To look at our beautiful Blessed Mother Mary and St Joseph as our own parents who, out of obedience, answered the call of God with all surrendering. 

     Yes, this Season, I'm taking it slow and relishing the awaiting of a God who did not forget about us and who loved us so much that He sent His only Son. 

     Hail! And blessed be that hour and that moment!