The Christmas Blues
Oh what a difference a few numbers on a calendar make. A few weeks ago it was, “The most wonderful time of the year”, and now it’s hard to find that happiness. Where did it go? Everyone has come down with the Blues. Is the happiness shut off by the numbers on the calendar? Do they really poses such awesome power? And why does it turn us blue are we freezing up? Just a few of those pesky, post holiday’s questions that everybody has but we just don’t like to talk about them.
Today I would like to look into them just to see if we can answer some of those questions or maybe just to understand why they happen to us.
First we must discover what makes us happy during the holiday season. I believe it is the anticipation of family and friends putting the leaf in the dinning room table, making up the spare bedroom, buying way to much food. It could be Embracing the time of the year that is set aside for thinking of others. Thinking about what God has done for us. A time when just about everybody can agree that God is real.
Then why does a few days wear down those feelings. Do you have anything in your life that you can look forward to in January? If your answer is no just listen to this,
“God says For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ”
God was speaking to the exiled people of Israel but He loves and cares for us to. Are you waiting for your blessing? Or are you so blue that you are blending in with the sky? Listen to what the Apostle John wrote to us concerning the love and provision of God.
“I have come that they (that’s us) may have life, and have it to the full. ”
The promise’s has been there for us all the time. Could it be that we just choose not to remember them? If that is the truth then the euphoric feeling that we have during the holiday season is something that we can choose to have the whole year long. It’s a Christian state of mind. I choose to keep Christmas in my heart the whole year long. (thank-you Dickens for reminding us)
I think that will be my New Year’s Resolution. To keep the joy of anticipation foremost in mind, God promised, Jesus delivered. I can feel the thaw setting in the blue’s are going away. God intended us to enjoy the sky not to blend in with it.