Leave Merry in Merry Christmas | Your peace is also important.

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How many weeks are in a year? Here it is: about 52 weeks! But how do I know this? Maybe because I Googled? But also because this lovely blog site has now made a year! On the 21st of  December 2019, we published our very first article: "Why the Festive excitement?", after which 51 more amazing articles have come to you every single Wednesday.
Happy 1st Anniversary, family!

Leave my Merry in Merry Christmas
It's that amazing time of the year, singing, food, dancing, bright lights, gifts, good music, weird sweaters, not for getting the miracles happening everywhere (by the way be sure that you Don't miss your Christmas Miracle!).

However, in order for all this merrymaking  to happen, it's us to cause it to happen. Someone has to cook that amazing food we get to enjoy, in fact, to begin with, someone has to buy that food; someone has to buy those gifts, put up those lights, find the perfect Christmas tree, put together that amazing Christmas music, buy those new clothes, and so on. And if we are not careful, at the end of the day, the essence of "merry" can be taken out of "Merry Christmas". At the end of the day, some husbands/wives end up hating the most wonderful time of the year because of the tedious process they have to go through to make things happen.

Even to those who love shopping, it becomes a nightmare during this season, especially if you're living in a country like mine (Uganda), where all of a sudden people have completely forgotten the 6 feet of social distancing, hundreds of people are storming in and out of shopping centers, stepping over each other in hunt for the perfect catch for Christmas; wives getting mad at their husbands who are withholding funds probably because they (the husbands) think the wives are bound to every last penny in the name of shopping for Christmas; young children getting mad at their parents because they didn't get their best Christmas gift this time round; friends afraid of giving out lots of gifts and not receiving any from anyone; other people spending the whole month's salary just on transport costs because they have to make it to the village in order to celebrate the season with their dear ones.

Please allow yourself to really enjoy the merry in Merry Christmas. "Merry" simply means: cheerful and lively. according to OxfordLanguages.com. Is cheerful and lively the way you would describe your festive season?

If everything would go as you wish, what would your perfect Christmas look like? God has blown my mind every time I close my eyes and answer such a question with sincerity. 
If everything will go as you wish, what would your perfect graduation day look like? What would your perfect wedding day look like? What would the new year, 2021, look like? What would your festive season look like? Pause and think about these things, and thereafter give God your genuine answer and let him do what he does best.

 Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Ephesians 3:20

Actually, let me stop here for today as I run off to go tell God what my perfect festive season would look like.

Before we go, please allow me to thank Mar'Kata Rhaimes for the excellent editorial work he has done with this blog throughout this past one year. And please join me by making some shout-outs to him in the comments.

I wish you all and your families very healthy lives!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Till next Wednesday.
God bless you!

Comments

  1. VINCENT24 December 2020 at 03:23

    @Mar'Kata Rhaimes thanks for the good work

    @Diana, thanks too for writing.

    Merry Christmas to ya both

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  2. ThatUgandan31 December 2020 at 10:33

    Thank you Markata Rhaimes!

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