So it's Christmas time! Not really feeling it which isn't normal for me . I love Christmas but this year it just seems to be overwhelming me. I think the body can only handle so much whether it's good or bad . I have been procrastinating doing anything and yet at the same time I know this is my first Christmas with my granddaughter ..... That is fun .... Just the energy levels,the pain, the stress of the surgery seems to press down like a weight . I get up and think ok today I will decorate, or shop, or wrap then I sit down and it doesn't happen!!!!!! Well the universe has conspired to make me move :)
God intervened through those around me:
A good friend helped me finish a special gift which started me looking forward to the season. Then a friend gave me a very nice gift to share with my family . So again, I am being directed towards the Christmas spirit. Then I lost the gift :(. I searched, retraced steps, prayed to St. Anthony (the patron saint of lost things) , then finally let it go .... No point obsessing over it .... It's gone . Two days later another friend comes to me and says "look what I found". There in her hand is my lost gift. The story of it coming into her hands is bizarre but suffice it to say ..... It was a miracle .... A Christmas miracle. Then, a friend decides to visit and while here convinces me to haul out a few decorations, put up a small tree and VOILA.. I am inspired! So Christmas will take place this year and I will participate ..... Sometimes you just need a little divine intervention through the love and kindness of friends .
I am still tired and overwhelmed about the future, but for the next little while I will live in the moment and enjoy the season ..... Count my blessings and find joy in what today has to offer.
I am a very blessed woman in so many ways :)
4 comments:
Christmas is overwhelming at best. Add cancer to the mix and surgery and most people would just stay in bed.
I am glad your lost thing was returned to you. Yesterday I lost my work cell phone. I can't even explain the trouble that would happen if I lose it. I was praying to all things that would listen but for the life of me could not remember who the patron saint of lost things are! Thanks for mentioning it here. I did find my phone wedged under the passenger seat of my car. How it got there is beyond me but when I found it relief washed over me. Then I had to remember to thank all those I prayed to that helped me find it.
*patron saint of lost things is,
Thanks Birdie I needed to hear that !
So happy to hear that you were sent angels to get you into the christmas spirit decorating. We all need our special group to make it that much more fun for ourselves sometimes.
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