Merry CHRISTmas!!

When I opened my Sunday school book this week it was met with dread. Don’t hear me wrong, I love teaching my little cherubs, making glue messes and being a part of that “AH-HA” moment when truths in the bible start to connect. This dread, I am ashamed to say is a dread for this season. Christmas. It used to be met with such fearless joy, happiness, and excitement leading up to the BIG day. These last few years it has been a feeling of sadness, sorrow, and a sad realization.

A realization that there are so many people who totally miss the boat when it comes to this time of year.

I cannot even tell you the number of people that ask me what I am getting my kids for Christmas. Or how many phone calls I get from people scrambling to think of something to get someone. Or how many people I talk to that cannot find one single evening to be at home because their calendars are so full of shopping, parties, etc. Or how my own daughter starts counting down the days till Christmas not so she can hear about Jesus but that then it “can be her birthday”.

You see it seems to me that we as Christians are missing out. We who should know what the reason for the season truly is are failing utterly to share that with the world.

This season I am challenging you all to think of ways you can share the TRUE meaning with the lost, and maybe, just maybe find your way to the joy, happiness, and excitement that Jesus SHOULD bring 24-7. I know I am. Gone are these days of dreading. I am gonna find ways in this santa ridden society to make this about Christ. Its going to happen in the Bennett home. Lets RE-claim CHRISTmas, together.