The December Treadmill

OK, we all know the Christmas season is enough to drive the most stable among us insane. We get on this fast-moving treadmill of shopping, baking, buying, wrapping, decorating, and partying. By the time December 26 comes around, we find ourselves dazed and dizzy and saying, "What was that all about?"

There's got to be a "better way". There's got to be a way to celebrate Christmas in such a way that God is honored and the kids don't want to disown us.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE OR ARE PLANNING TO DO THIS CHRISTMAS TO MAKE IT A SPECIAL TIME? How do you blend the sacred and the secular?

Blog on,

Pastor Phil

Post-Thanksgiving musings

It's easy to be thankful on Thanksgiving--food, football, and family! The rest of the year...is a different story. One thing that's helped me is to go back to the first "Thanksgiving". It came a year after the first pilgrims had landed here. Due to a brutal winter, only 50 of the original 102 pilgrims survived. On the first anniversary, these pilgrims debated whether they should observe a "day of mourning" or a "day of thanksgiving". They decided to focus on what they had going FOR them and not on what they had going AGAINST them.

I guess that's our choice every day. There's always something to be thankful for.

Pastor Phil