HEY...SATTIDAY!

OH YEAH.........

Could be a busy one for all you folks not quite ready for the Holiday...Christmas, I assume for most of my readers...
Always a shame the frightening hustle that happens this time of year.
I know the points been over worked, but, really, it's so easy to lose the Christ part of Christmas. Especially if you have kids (or grandkids!!) there's so much to do, so many things to buy...
Can't help but think of the time when the "holiday" started. Back when the carpenter's family was on the road, Mary heavily pregnant, the census had to be taken, tough as it might be. I guess in their own way, the holy family had a bit of stress of their own. Joseph, with a wife carrying a baby he didn't father. Having to travel when Mary was due. No hospitals back then, no ambulances...They all knew that the baby could be born on the side of the road. And this was Mary's first. Her labor was bound to be long and hard. I bet she was deep into labor when the innkeepers turned them away. Can you imagine Josephs anguish, his frustration at the fact that he couldn't even find a bed for his wife, just about to deliver the baby?
We guys are fixers. We really feel the need to find solutions, to take control and carry the problem to it's solution.
So, it must have killed Joseph to be refused in their need. It sure would have killed me! I think I'd probably end up in some Bethlehem jail cell for throttling some innkeeper!!
Anyways, we all know it worked out okay. But for a while, don't the pressures facing the holy family make our search for the perfect gift, our last minute frenzy to sate some non-need, don't these things seem a little, well, silly...
I know...not to the kids...I know....
But, please, try to love this week ahead for what it really is.

And have a truly blessed and excellent Christmas!

YOU GET THE POINT!!