Celebrating Christmas- The Great Crossroads

There's an old saying that goes like this, "with age comes wisdom." As I'm closing out my 49th year on Planet Earth, I can't say that I feel and wiser than I did thirty years ago, but what I can tell you is that I appreciate simple things much more than I did then. Take the Christmas card for example.

Every year, we get dozens of cards- some are simple, some are ornate, some are from companies reminding us how much our business (and money) are appreciated, some are from people I barely know. But all of these people have met us at some point or another at the Crossroads we call Life.

When I was a kid, I could scarcely contain my excitement as Christmas Day approached. I would sit under the tree gently shaking and examining everyone of my presents to try and guess the contents. I get the same kind of excitement now every afternoon when the mailman delivers Christmas cards. I always ask my wife, Andrea, "How many did we get today?" and who they are from. It's fun to read each card and remember the Ghosts of Christmas's past and how each of these card senders touched our lives. Some folks we still keep in touch with, others are like Haley's Comet only intersecting with us once a year at this time. But they are still in our Life's orbit as we are in theirs, and for that I'm grateful.

Two thousand years ago, God sent his own Christmas card in the form of His Son. This Crossroads, between God and Man, is the ultimate Christmas card, the Ultimate Gift. Though I may not be any wiser than I was as a young man, I'm wise enough to stop for a second to say, "Thank you" to the Man upstairs. My hope is that all of your Christmas Crossroads, whether divine or earthly, be filled with Love and Peace this Holiday Season.