Saturday, December 10, 2011

Christmas Morning Disappointments

Last night I had a great time at our high school white elephant Christmas party. We played games, floor hockey, ate lots of junk food and ended the night with a our gift exchange. A white elephant gift party is where everyone brings a wrapped, random or funny item from home that you didn't have to buy. Then everyone gets to pick a gift and unwrap it in front of everyone. There were so many hilarious gifts. It was so good seeing high school age kids laugh and have as much fun as they did. They had such a great time opening cheesy and silly gifts. As I was driving home, I began thinking about all the fun I saw tonight and the reality of what will happen on Christmas morning in millions of homes around the country. Kids are going to open presents and gifts and be sad, disappointed and maybe even upset, because they didn't get the things they wanted. Maybe they didn't get the Iphone, and Ipod, the clothing they wanted, or whatever, and their face and attitude will reflect it. It's so sad how much this will happen so much on Christmas morning, simply because of a young person's wrong attitude. There will be other homes where there's very little under the Christmas tree. As kids open the one small gift under the tree, their will be tears of joy and hearts full of gratitude. Maybe not for the gift, but for all those other things they have so much to be thankful for. Things like Jesus' love, a family, a roof over a head, food to eat, health, friends and so on. I pray that in your home on Christmas there's only thankfulness, peace and joy.

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