Merry Christmas! Embracing the True Meaning of Christmas!

This post will be brief, as I know each of us are busy, busy, busy preparing for our Holiday Festivities.

I want to thank each of you for being a follower of Nurturing Your Wellness Blog. I look forward to the 2019 New Year as I interact with “my email and blogging community” by providing you with recipes, healthy tips, real life accounts, inspirational quotes and scriptures, and sharing the journey of Nurturing each of you in your Health and Wellness.

Over the next few days, Christmas Eve to New Years Day, I’m encouraging each of you to simply enjoy where the Holiday Festivities bring you. It may bring you to a reoccurring family tradition, like we talked about in my last post, or it may bring you around a table that you’ve never sat at before on Christmas Day. It may be that a place that was once occupied by a loved one, is empty, due to a variety of reasons. Perhaps death, perhaps broken relationships, perhaps distance of miles. But, however, wherever, and with whomever you are creating memories, during this Holy Season, strive to find joy and thankfulness with what you do have, and to not focus on what you don’t have. I know, very often, easier said than done. But…possible with prayer and mindfulness to embrace the moment.

I also encourage each of you to consciously and continually keep the True meaning of Christmas in your heart and mind. All around us, on every street corner, every time we open our phones, turn on the radio or TV, look in the newspapers, we are bombarded with the commercialism associated with the Christmas Season, and Jesus, the lowly babe, the True meaning of Christmas is so easily lost amongst all the glitter and tinsel of this world. As you gather, and you share gifts, as you share food, as you share love, as you share memories, never loose focus on the greatest gift God gave to us so long ago in Bethlehem.

Jesus Christ was born in smelly, dirty stable, became a man, lived a perfect life even amidst great temptations and persecutions, died an agonizing death, shed His innocent and atoning blood and water on Calvary’s cross, and then arose from the grave, became victor over death, taught and preached again after His resurrection, and then returned to Heaven to sit on the Father’s right hand, where He still is today. Here He is interceding for you, for me. Can we truly comprehend the depth and the length and the height of Jesus’ love for us? No, not in all its fullness! But, we can each do our part in living our life in a manner that gives Him all honor and all glory. As we bid farewell to 2018 and look forward to 2019, let us make it our priority, our goal, to strive to walk just a little more faithful, just a little closer to that Babe, to that Man, to Our Savior, striving to be an example of His Love, kindness, mercy and compassion to each other within our family circles and to all those whom we are blessed to meet as we go throughout our journey of life.

Let your Light of Christmas shine brightly now, through this Holiday Season, and throughout the New Year! The True Gift fo Christmas can be embraced and treasured every day! If we do, I can assure you, your journey to health and wellness will be prospered!

Wishing you God’s blessing to each of you. See you in 2019!

Merry Christmas!

Kim