Pastor's Video Blog

January

Posted by Pastor John Lewis on

So, it’s January. Gray and cold. Yuck! The presents are all unwrapped. Some have even been returned and exchanged already. The toys have long since been torn from the boxes and had their initial use. The lights on the houses in the neighborhood have all come down. The Christmas trees are next to the garbage cans. Nothing to look forward to now except the credit card bills. So……let me make you smile.
The Month After Christmas: It was the month after Christmas, and all through the house nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog I’d tasted at the holiday parties had gone to my waist. When I got on the scales, there arose such a number! When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber), I’d remember the marvelous meals I’d prepared; the gravies and sauces and beef nicely rare, the wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese and the way I’d never said, "No thank you, please." As I dressed myself in my husband’s old shirt and prepared once again to do battle with dirt--- I said to myself, as I only can, "You can’t spend a winter disguised as a man!" So--away with the last of the sour cream dip, get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip, every last bit of food that I like must be banished ’til all the additional ounces have vanished. I won’t have a cookie--not even a lick. I’ll want only to chew on a long celery stick. I won’t have hot biscuits, or corn bread or pie, I’ll munch on a carrot and quietly cry. I’m hungry, I’m lonesome and life is a bore--- but isn’t that what January is for? Unable to giggle, no longer a riot. Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!
Do you get depressed this time of year? It is a normal feeling that many of us get, just feeling a bit down. I sometimes wonder if Mary and Joseph didn’t experience that same feeling. I mean, after the shepherds left, the visits from the angel stopped, the Magi had long gone. We tend to journey through the holiday season and “get through it” like it is something that starts and then ends –– when what we are celebrating is really only the beginning. The let-down feeling is normal, but let’s remember that the journey has just begun. Jesus has now come among us, He has changed things, now we can walk with Him. Hang in there.
Scripture: Matthew 28:20 20 "And teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Prayer: Lord, as we go through January and February, help us to remember that you are right here with us. Amen



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