Health & Fitness
Are you ready for Christmas? Yes!
How can you not be ready to receive the goodness of this season? Spiritual writer and Counselor, Susan Tish reminds us that it doesn't take any rushing around to enjoy the true gifts of Christmas!
"Are you ready for Christmas?", seems to be the question everyone is asking me this week. Of course, this question is referring to all the extraneous tasks that seem to come along with this holiday season: gift buying, house decorating, card writing etc. But my yoga instructor and friend, came up with a thoughtful response to this question. He said, "Of course I am ready!" He remarked that this holiday season is a time of giving and goodness and spreading joy and we are all ready for and welcome more of that!
Each of us is ready, whether we are Christians or from some other faith tradition, to receive more of the Christ- spirit that Christmas represents. The birth of Christ Jesus signifies the advent of a way of life that would offer a more lasting peace, a greater sense of joy and harmony, a more secure sense of health, and a heart overflowing with compassion and goodness. For this, the greatest gift of Christmas, there is no need to rush around, or wrap it or bake it. What is required is stillness; a moment of quiet surrender to the joy of this season; dropping away any sense of strain or stress; and an openness of heart to all the goodness God has in store for us.
One night, long ago in the fields of Judea, far away from the manger where Jesus was born, Shepherds became aware of something beautiful, wonderful, marvelous. Ever watchful and ready, they noticed a bright new star in the North and as they pondered it, realized it was a herald of good things to come. An angel clarified this wondrous sign explaining to them, "I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." (The Bible, Luke 2:10) As spiritual thinker and writer Mary Baker Eddy wrote of this realization of glad tidings, "The watchful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day."(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pg. vii)
Each year we commemorate the birth of Jesus and with it, the great anticipation of the joy, harmony, health and blessings his great life demonstrated to us. We are all prepared to receive more of this!
"Joy to the world, the Lord has come, let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing!"
