Christmas is my favorite time of the year. It's where singing out of no where is (somewhat) socially acceptable, and people even join in! It's where you can go shopping everyday and people don't think it's weird...granted you shop for everyone else, but that's not the point. It's where you bake goodies all day, you drink copious amounts of hot chocolate, put up decorations, the music, the movies, it's...it's magical.
My favorite part of the Christmas season is the Christmas Eve service. This year was no different.
Well, it was plenty different. It was more like a big loud party. An awesome party. :)
The music was amazing, the worship was great, and Andrea and I were pretty fantastic if I do say so myself. :)
During the message I found myself feeling extremely overwhelmed with Christmas. I feel like a month is not long enough to prepare yourself for Christmas. I don't mean the baking, the shopping, the decorations, or any of that. I mean that moment when you sit down and reflect on the "reason for the season" and you try to BEGIN to comprehend the fact that God, the all-knowing and powerful God sent down his only son to us humans. Flawed, sinful, selfish humans. And what did we do with Him? We killed him.
It's such a huge thing to comprehend.
Through all the hustle and bustle of Christmas we often lose our focus and don't have time to think about why we're even celebrating Christmas. By the time you start to think about it, it's Christmas day and we have to start planning for New Year's Eve.
This year I've learned a lot about priorities. Who knew that sleeping and eating comes before studying for 12 hours straight!
So during the Christmas Eve service I realized that I don't want this to happen again. Next year, I want to have my heart ready from day 1. I want to seize every moment I have to worship and honor Him not only during Advent, but the rest of the year too.
