Christmas Season Serenity

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...we're rushing everywhere, there are bills that still have to be paid, cookies that need to be made, and children getting on my very last nerve....It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, the job is stressing me out, I'm not really trying to pout, but please just hear me out, the holidays are making me insane! {To the tune of "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"]

Ok, so most of the above doesn't really fit me today, and I'm grateful for that. It could fit me. If I am not careful the demands and stress of what is supposed to be a time of joy and love could make me nuts and test my serenity and sobriety. There is so much to do. Always so much to do and never enough time and money to do it all. It is more critical than usual during this time when everything seems vamped up and enhanced, the money and time issues so much worse, the desires and expectations so much greater, that I remember that I am a human being not a human doing.

The busier I feel, the more important it is that I take a little time to just be. Be still and know that He is God. Be still and clear my mind before I attack the day. Be still and reflect on my blessings. Be still and know nothing but the wind and the cold and the birds singing and the cats cute and cuddled against the weather. Just be. Pray, meditate and do nothing, and do something with someone you love. And do something for someone else without seeking recognition or anything in return. These are my daily ingredients for Christmas season serenity.