'Tis the Season

First of all, I should start by saying that my internet has been sketchy recently, which is why the post is a little late. The internet at the house was not working and over Thanksgiving the internet where I was, was not working but here goes.

Relationships
Every week at the office, we have devotions as a staff (Clara and I do). This week we talked about relationships, which I thought was rather fitting as we headed into the holiday season. Here are some key points from our conversation: when building relationships it needs to be an even give and take. With both parties contributing and having responsibilities for the good of the friendship. With each piece that we add to the relationship the nicer, better wall it becomes that sometimes is indestructible. However, sometimes life gets in its way, which can cause pain.

Serving Others
Like every other week, this week we also had our house devotion. This particular week we talked about serving others, which I found to be extremely fitting considering it was Thanksgiving week.

"When we help others, it is like we are entertaining angels."

Often we do not yet know this impact of holding the door open for someone and what will become of it.

Like the movie The Holiday (which I happen to be watching as I type this out), one of the main characters enters a new world, then once she steps away from her life she finds an opportunity to help out one of her new neighbors, which becomes a great friendship. Making time to helps a  others get wrapped up in us that we miss the opportunity to serve.

Being Grateful
Thanksgiving is a time to really sit back and take time to think about the gifts that we have been given. Going along with this, I made my housemates make thank you turkeys, identify these things that each of us are thankful for. Here our are turkeys (I am an educator, what can I say...).

Food for thought

I have been thinking a lot about the Holiday's what the holidays truly means. For me, I think that we need to remember the true reason for the season and remember to not get to wrapped up in the commercialism. 

Someone at church on Sunday, a friend of mine said something during the announcement time that I have been thinking about a lot. She said that we need to remember what Christmas is all about. Remember the less fortunate this holiday season. But also remember, that when you go and buy a gift for someone, don't get caught up in how much money you spend and thinking to yourself how great you are. But think about the way that giving makes you feel, the warmth that you feel in your heart and work for that feeling rather than the other.



Now Clara and I are preparing to go to Florida for a conference.

Pretty excited.

I hope that this makes sense, talk to you later.

Carol!