My Christian walk

photo by:  Contributed Photo New year, new goals. But before you chase that goal… I want to believe that most, if not all of us, want to achieve some sort of a better life. We each have a unique image of what a better life means to us: more money, better family, better job, bigger platform, more influence, you name it. We spend a lot of time striving to get to our version of "better", but very often we forget to look into the real cost that comes with this our version of  better .   Every good thing we can think of comes with a ' cross' The idea of attaining a "better life" tends to be so exciting that sometimes we sacrifice too much to get that better life; and sadly, oftentimes when we eventually get it, we realize that the cost was too much, and then we start to hate what we strove so hard to get. Every good thing we can think of comes with a  cross_  something attached to it: responsibility, accountability, too much work, limited freedom, and many ...

Why the too much festive excitement? Of course there is nothing wrong with the excitement that is why it is called a Merry Christmas the merry means it's a joyous occasion. However we so often forget the Christ part. Just imagine your mother or friends buying themselves gifts and cakes on your birthday! We all go through so much during this time of the year. Trying to celebrate Christ's birthday. People shopping, getting angry at each other, trying to bear with "crazy" family members, buying foods and gifts at almost twice the price they were one month back and spreading some love. Sometimes this gets too much and reveals the ungodliness in most of us; when things don't go the way we had planned, when Bea/Spouse doesn't send the perfect Christmas gift, when the market gets crazy, or you don't get that perfect dress. Many things have a tendency of going wrong during this season however we should never let all this merry make us forget the Christ...