-Eckhart Tolle
I believe the greatest gift this season offers is the reminder that it is all about peace. Yet it is so very easy to get pulled away from this peace by all the busy chatter in our minds on what there is to "do". Most of us get lost in constant busy activity...shopping, buying, wrapping, baking, decorating, preparing, meeting tradition and expectation...and spend so little of the season being.
One thing this little life circumstance gave me is a freedom from mental chatter related to this commercialized version of Christmas...I did very little, I thought very little of it...and was so surprised to realize that there are only two preparation days left. I have "stuff" for my children, and D. but nothing else. I still have to go back out there! Yuck. I don't even know if it is I or my ex doing the Christmas supper for the kids this year. (I will definitely cook a turkey for them but it may be on boxing day rather than Christmas). Unfortunately I didn't do my charity giving yet which is so important to me but even that doesn't matter because I don't believe that type of giving is nor should it be just seasonal. I am not invested in the date "December 25th", I guess. I will use it as a wonderful opportunity to bring family together, to make it a point to be charitable etc but other than that it does not have that great of a significance for me. (I sound like a scrooge, don't I?)
I have in the past found great peace in certain segments of it: on Christmas eve when the "rush" was over and there was no more opportunity to purchase another thing for anyone; when the kids were all in bed sleeping and I was out alone by the tree...after I did the Santa thing... I would just sit there reciting or sometimes even singing lol the words of silent night. Christmas Mass was very important to me too when I practiced as a Catholic...I chose the Christmas mass that followed the Christmas rush...when the church was not full and very peaceful. Christmas supper always brought me joy...preparing and sharing a big meal with all my children and loved ones around the table is very special. But yeah a certain relief comes when there is no more time or room for busy doing, rushing and commercialism. It just seems all wrong to me. Yet I get lost in it every year :)
Sigh...I want silence and stillness...I need more silence and stillness. That is what I am asking Santa for and what I wish for all of you.
Have a wonderful blessed and peaceful holiday.
All is well.
(Yes I am giving you the same Christmas card almost every year with these pics...my bad. :))
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