Everyday has come again...

The house is still dark this early morning three days after Christmas. My wife and I are sleeping on the floor of our living room with my son Jakob and our two year old granddaughter. The rest of the rooms of our house are filled. Filled with family here for the Christmas holiday. I cannot get back to sleep, so I try to quietly arise from the mattress on the floor and sneak into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. I move to another room for a moment and there I see my oldest son. He has let out the visiting dog, (yes we have our family and a couple of their pets with us too).
I look around to see where I can sit quietly and drink my coffee and see that the sun is trying to make its way to the eastern horizon. So I slip out onto the back porch and look at the thermometer and though it says it is 20 degrees, I am okay with my thick bathrobe and cup of coffee.
As I look to the east I see the slight glowing of the eventual sunrise and notice cars and truck still with lights on pulling into the Chesapeake parking lot, (thank you again Chesapeake employees for your wonderful generosity to the Waynoka Food Pantry)!. It’s Monday. The Monday after Christmas and people are getting back to their everyday. The things we do everyday have come back and life and work resumes to their normal patterns just like a month or two before we entered the Christmas season. Gone are the expectations of Christmas coming. Memories have been made from yet another Christmas day. Everyday has returned and I sit and wonder what this Christmas brought to us all and how it will affect our everyday.
Sure the lights and trees and decorations are still visible, but their meaning and beauty has diminished a little because Christmas has passed. We sit and we think about the trimmings of Christmas and how soon it will be that we must start removing the decorations, packing them away till next year, (As of today, December 31, there are 359 days left till Christmascomes again)!
How will we let this past Christmas affect us? How will we reflect upon yet another celebration of the coming of Christ? How will we live a little differently because we know the Christ child has come, and the King of Kings has lived, and the Lord of the universe has died for us so that we can become the children of God?
Let us resolve ourselves to making sure that this past Christmas and Christmases to come make us more committed to God and Christ; to love others as ourselves, to serve, to care to love. May we never forget the “Real Reason for the Season” because you see we are the reason for the season, Christ coming to be our Savior! After all if we did not need a Savior Christ might not have come at all! Let us not pack away Christ with the Christmas décor and keep Him present in our hearts and lives always!