It’s that most wonderful time of the year.. In the morning I will wake up to a number of messages and posts.. almost all wishing a Merry Christmas, some adding in the New Year for good measure.
A good number of these will express a wish for merriment or at least the making of good memories with your family and friends.
Usually I welcome these, and almost as often I am one to send out these wishes. These sentiments are nearly always heartfelt, a sincere way to express our care and consideration of those we love.
If the urges strikes you to do so, then by all means, please do send them out. My only wish in this for this year particularly, is that we each take care with the wording of them. That we don’t send them out blindly or without thought. That we instead choose our words with great care, and with as much meaning and sincerity as possible.
Take an extra bit of time to consider each of your friends and your family. Each has had their own shares of joys, triumphs, and even tragedies this last year. Some may be blissfully in ensconced in the best days of their lives. Some are hurting, engulfed in their darkest and bleakest. Still others go about their days in a state of seeming normalcy.
Each and every family member and friend is in your life for a reason, as are you in theirs. And so I ask that as you create these greetings and well wishes that you do so with such thoughtfulness and such absolute sincerity. And that you do so taking no offense if they do not respond in kind.
Please remember that as much as we would wish joy and happiness for all of our friends and family this time of year some are just not there right now. So along with your well wishes and love be ready and willing to extend understanding, grace, a sympathetic shoulder or even a little space if needed. Trust me when I say that those can go such a long way and be so very meaningful.
And now for my own Holiday wishes for you…
I wish for you hope and joy wherever and as often as possible. I wish for you the bestest of friends and closest of family to walk alongside you in this New Year, to share in those joys, and to make exceptionally lighter any trials, pains or sorrows you may encounter.
I wish a renewal and/or strengthening of your faith, and a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with God. I wish for amazing wisdom, clarity and direction. For wonderous breakthroughs and overflows throughout the year.
I wish for you spiritual, physical, emotional & financial healing. I wish for you and yours a great abundance of both deep rooted peace and love.
And from the bottom of my heart I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a beyond Happy New Year!!!
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