Growing up, Christmas season didn't begin until the day after Thanksgiving.
It was all I knew. Tradition.
I have been a follower of this reasoning until this year.
Until two days ago actually.
But then, I decided that starting Christmas season before Thanksgiving didn't slight turkey day in the least!
In fact, now, the holiday is included in my most favorite kind of season! Christmas season!
I decided to go ahead & begin listening to Christmas music, to buy some presents, plan a few parties, put up decorations earlier this year all because it is something that brings great joy into my life.
These days it gets dark outside by 6pm (which is super depressing) & I'm not going to find myself in the same dark place (literally & figuratively) as last year.
It's going to be a happy winter for me & I don't know a better way to kick it off than by stirring up a little Christmas spirit!
After all, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ.
Christ who saves me daily from the filthy pit of my own mind.
Who gives me the strength to battle Satan & the deteriorating thoughts he fills my head with every day.
By embracing Christ, his birth, his life, his death, how will I have time to buy into the lies that Satan is forever whispering in my ear?
I won't!
This fight for my peace of mind, for my sanity, for my happiness is really a battle for my life.
In her book "Battlefield of the Mind" Joyce Meyer says this about Satan's war tactics:
Satan begins by bombarding out minds with cleverly devised patterns of irritation, dissatisfaction, doubts, fears, & reasonings. He moves slowly & cautiously (after all, well-laid plans take time). he is never in a hurry to inject unholy, self-centered thoughts into our heads. If we don't kick them out, they stay. and Satan can continue his evil destructive plan.
I'm not letting him own my mind anymore.
I'm fighting back.
And my first move is to bring Christmas around early this year.
No one can be full of anxiety or worry while listening to the N*Sync Christmas album!
Plus, Charles Dickens says to keep Christmas in your heart all the year.
Who I am to argue with Dickens?!
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