Merry Christmas everyone! I pray you have a joyous, and blessed holiday season.
If you still haven’t gone shopping for gifts, may I suggest a Christmas of Service this year? Take you loved ones to a museum sometime next year and pay for everything. Take them on a hike and bring a great picnic lunch. Go explore a cave with them. Do one of those painting with adult beverage evenings. Take them antiquing. Take them to a botanical garden. Take them to the local theater for a play next year. Take them to an author book signing event. One of those will be coming up in May 2018 that will be a perfect gift for next year.
Basically, find more ways to spend more time with your loved ones and friends next year. Sure, the big screen TV, the clothes, and the toys are nice. But what if we spend more time with each other instead of our things. What wonderful things would we find when we choose to spend time with our family and friends at quality events. Instead of communicating via an electronic device, talk to them in person and turn off the electronics so that you won’t be disturbed. Focus on making memories with others next year, not what cool thing you can get for them. People cherish memories more than things. Things wear out and get broken. Memories are with us for the rest of our lives, or at least until we develop dementia in our old age. Memories tell a story better than history. Because after all, history doesn’t write itself.
Christmas and the new year are grand times to make new memories with your loved ones. Give them something incredibly precious: your time.
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What I’m Reading – Many readers I know like to inquire what their favorite author is reading. At the end of each blog post, I’ll let you know what I’m reading. I may not be a published author yet, but I hope my choice of reading material inspires you to read. I’m up to Christ Appeals to the Human Heart, chapter 2 of part 1 of Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body by St. Pope John Paul II. 440 more pages to go. I’ll be reading this probably for the next two months. I’ve previous read Theology of the Body Explained by Christopher West, but now I get to experience the actual words of the great Pope. I encourage you to read a variety of topics.