It’s that time of year again,
my wedding anniversary. Oh, wrong one, sorry. Just kidding. It is Christmas
time. The holly and jolly and misteltoe and talk of presents and Black Friday
shopping has come too soon. However, this year is different for me. You see,
last year, I was on my honeymoon, so I kind of got to “skip” Christmas. Gasp….
I know. How could anyone ever. But it is possible, and this year I get to start
my own new traditions with my new family. And one that I am going to try to
start is keeping the focus on Christ. We say it, we label it: “Keep Christ in
Christmas”, we preach it, and we give to charity. But what about our hearts and
our testimony and what others are seeing? Is it working? For me, personally
it’s not.
One of the best presents my husband ever got me was a video of him
going and spending his christmas money for me at Walmart buying toys with his
friends and dropping them off at the police department for the toy drive. They
also did an angel tree. But that is by far my favorite present I have ever
received for Christmas. And so maybe, just maybe, if we continue to put our
hearts and minds on the things that Paul tells to the Philippians in the book
Philippians, we might have the best Christmas of all. You can knock out multiple in one day, or
have 25 different days. You can start after Thanksgiving but it has to be done
by Christmas, and hopefully, it’ll change our hearts so much as well, that we
continue without a list. Hope you’ll take part in this too. We’d love to hear
about it!
25 Days to Keep Christ at the beginning of Christmas
- Make your neighbors a treat
- Give someone a written note of encouragement and affirmation
- Volunteer to do something for someone for free
- Donate something- food, money, clothes, etc. to a place or person
- Smile and give a genuine compliment
- Feed a homeless person
- Buy a stranger at the same place something in secret
- Pack a box for operation Christmas
child
- Cook a friend dinner
- Tithe to something
- Talk to a stranger
- Call someone in your family that you haven’t talked to in a while
- Publicly affirm someone you love
- Put up all electronics and social media for an afternoon, night, morning, or a whole day if you can
- Talk to someone about your faith
- Hand write a thank you card to
someone
- Tip bigger than normal with a kind note
- Donate blood and save a life
- Give someone flowers for no reason
- Put something up for sale for free
- Pass on a book after you’re done reading it
- Run an errand for someone
- Open the door for someone
- Park farther away so others can be closer to the building
- Invite someone to church to hear the real meaning behind Christmas and your actions
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