1 Day to Christmas
I got exactly what I want for Christmas because my cousin got awfully sick with a cold! My wish, you see, was for my entire family to be together this Christmas. My cousin was going to travel to China on the 23rd to meet my uncle there, and I sincerely wanted both of them here with the family. As it turns out, my cousin caught the nastiest of all colds and could not make the flight to China, thus my uncle is now coming home to his son and to us today on Christmas Eve!
This is the first Christmas Eve without aunt Rita. I called her house yesterday and her gentle voice came on the answering machine recording, it brought me to tears. Due to Rita’s passing, some of my family members suggested skipping Christmas this year, but to me, this is one of the most important Christmases for all of us to be together. We don’t have to celebrate the commercialism of the holiday, we’re not together to wait up to hear the bells on Santa’s sleigh. I want us to all to be together even if we just huddled and cried, that would mean much more than being separated this Christmas. I miss my aunt dearly. She was one of those bright lights of the world and I saw Jesus through her more clearly than from anyone else that I know. I admire the way she lived her call, the joy that she brought to everyone everywhere she went, and her persistent praise to God even in her final days of pain. I don’t think there’s a better way to celebrate her life than for us all to be together and bond as a family, I know she would have wanted that. And I don’t think there’s a better way to celebrate Christmas than for our earthly family to be together to celebrate our savior’s birth while our heavenly family is doing the same.
It is Christmas Eve. My entire family is coming over to my house at 7:00pm and my heart is content.
I got exactly what I want for Christmas because my cousin got awfully sick with a cold! My wish, you see, was for my entire family to be together this Christmas. My cousin was going to travel to China on the 23rd to meet my uncle there, and I sincerely wanted both of them here with the family. As it turns out, my cousin caught the nastiest of all colds and could not make the flight to China, thus my uncle is now coming home to his son and to us today on Christmas Eve!
This is the first Christmas Eve without aunt Rita. I called her house yesterday and her gentle voice came on the answering machine recording, it brought me to tears. Due to Rita’s passing, some of my family members suggested skipping Christmas this year, but to me, this is one of the most important Christmases for all of us to be together. We don’t have to celebrate the commercialism of the holiday, we’re not together to wait up to hear the bells on Santa’s sleigh. I want us to all to be together even if we just huddled and cried, that would mean much more than being separated this Christmas. I miss my aunt dearly. She was one of those bright lights of the world and I saw Jesus through her more clearly than from anyone else that I know. I admire the way she lived her call, the joy that she brought to everyone everywhere she went, and her persistent praise to God even in her final days of pain. I don’t think there’s a better way to celebrate her life than for us all to be together and bond as a family, I know she would have wanted that. And I don’t think there’s a better way to celebrate Christmas than for our earthly family to be together to celebrate our savior’s birth while our heavenly family is doing the same.
It is Christmas Eve. My entire family is coming over to my house at 7:00pm and my heart is content.
posted by J @ 4:32 PM
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