Good Monday morning! December has arrived, both on the calendar and in the weather. We have snow on the ground this morning! Not a lot, but we'll take it. A great good morning and a hearty "Merry Christmas" to you! I am up and awake early this morning. When inspiration comes for one of my stories I have found it best to get up and write it down before the inspiration fades away. Yes, it can be a bit of a pain when inspiration arrives at 0400 in the morning. Welcome to the day now known as Cyber Monday. This is the day when web shopping starts in earnest for the holiday season. Several sales e-mails were in my inbox this morning, I even watched some of them arrive. Guess they didn't expect me to be up and online quite that early.
Be careful driving to work today; the sun is going to make the new snow very bright this morning. Josh Groban's Christmas CD is playing on the stereo today, sounds good too! I guess I am showing my age by using the term "stereo". That term came from the old stereophonic sound in the '70s, should we call it a "surro" now? A short term from surround sound system. Somehow saying Josh Groban's Noel is playing on the surro hasn't quite caught on yet. :-)
December 1st means that we can have a "Merry Christmas!" on our lips and even the most secular folks won't growl too much. Some of the secular Christmas songs can be fun. Does she really want a hippopotamus for Christmas? However, I especially enjoy the Christmas songs that sing of Christ and His birth. This time of the year is so full of the celebration of Christ's birth and the joy that event brought to earth that December 26th almost seems like a day of mourning. In this life we must enjoy the seasons as they come. Times of rejoicing can be followed by a time of mourning and vice versa. The feeling we enjoy at Christmas time is just a taste of the never ending joy that will be ours when Jesus comes to take us home. Right now "never ending joy" is difficult to imagine. If we don't want to think that all good things come to an end in this life, someone or some media is sure to remind us. Rest in the assurance that Jesus has prepared a place for each of us, and that joy-filled place will not end!
Have a very merry Christmas!
Bucky
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