ADVENT

Its getting ready to get ready time.  Getting ready to welcome the baby Jesus.
Lets start out by saying that the Christmas Holyday (holiday) that we celebrate does not begin the day after Thanksgiving and end Christmas Eve.  Rather our Holyday begins Christmas Eve and we celebrate until January 6, Little Christmas.   The Seasons Greeting Holiday celebrates the ringing of cash registers and the singing of, after the first day of Christmas, as they count the money, "what a friend we have in Jesus"..... we don't believe in him but boy does he help us get richer.  

So getting ready for his followers involves looking into our hearts, cleaning up  up our acts and giving of ourselves to him on Christmas morning.  This is the exchange of gifts that matters and carries no price tag.  

Consider during the Christmas Holyday Season..December 25 to January 6, to go into your immediate neighborhood, find those who are needy and give them cash not material things, cash so that they can use it to help themselves.  Many people are without work, losing their homes and there is a lot of stress in their lives.   I know a lady whose business takes her in daily contact with a lot of homes in my neighborhood, she is aware of the tough times people go through.  Out of her own pocket, when she receives gifts, she quietly passes it on to those who she finds needy.  It goes right into their hands no middle man.  This is what we are going to do this year, hand it to her and she can be the angel.  She is an angel already and she goes about her work quietly.

If you dont want to be seen giving money, put it in an envelope and slip it under their door when they are not around. 

We are getting ready to get ready.......We are getting the best gift of all.  Jesus and his love.