Have you thought about why you are rushing around, decorating, buying, composing wish lists, playing special music? Do you just do it? Of course, this assumes you are actually celebrating Christmas, I guess.
Walter Hilton has this great illustration in “The Ladder of Perfection.” A hound that runs after the hare only because he sees other hounds run, when he is weary, he stays and rests, or turns home again; but if he runs because he sees or is in view of the hare, he will not spare for weariness till he has caught her.
If you are going through all the effort and emotional swings of Christmas only because all your family and friends are or “it’s the right thing to do,” then you will be exhausted and weary. But if all you do is in the context of celebration of Jesus’ coming, if you devote this time as a period of renewing your focus on Jesus, if you share your joy, then you’ll not only survive the month, but you’ll thrive. And bring others along with you.
Tags: attitude, Christianity, focus
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