Seeking the Messiah

When I was a young mother I was very ill for many, many years.  Just getting out of bed and tending to the basic needs of my husband and children was overwhelming and exhausting.  Merge the day to day life with all that needs to be done for Christmas…you know what I’m talking about:  shopping for gifts, wrapping presents, preparing food, baking holiday treats, spending time with family and friends,etc., all great things but in doing them, it sent my body into shut down.

Year in and year out, as Christmas drew closer, my immune system would get lower and lower and eventually I would find myself sicker than a dog waiting anxiously to go back to bed the day I crossed the finish line; Christmas morning.  My gentle and quiet spirit was no where to be found.

Not only did I feel like a failure as a wife and mother throughout the year but even more so during the Christmas season, which ultimately resulted in me loathing the Christmas holiday.  Yet, as a Believer, I knew there was something wrong with my perspective!

Something needed to change.  Seeing how I couldn’t fix my body, I had no other choice but to live with my limitations which forced me to become very intentional about what we embraced as a family.

So I made the decision to be like Mary as she sat at Jesus’ feet, rather than being distracted like Martha.

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