Those crazy Elves just cannot cease to have a good time around our house! Lilboo said "It's like you feel it, you are at a Party." If you try you almost hear the guitar being played that Elvis The Elf is holding and tunes being sung by the singers and the dancers elated grooving to the beats. Silly as this may be, there's a strong message that is vastly appropriate for this Special Time of Year! With all the Merriment at our fingertips during this Holiday Season make sure you allow yourself to "feel" this Season. What I mean is, I personally detest doing something I do not"feel". It can be the good stuff, decorating, addressing the Christmas Cards, singing the Carols, buying the presents, baking the goodies...etc. I want to be moved while doing these things and sometimes I have to make myself start out but if I'm not getting it, I will take a break from it and come back when I have that Passion fueling my task. Sometimes its moments due to the time constraint needed for its completion. But I will walk outside, or mix it up and usually it comes after I have put that effort in, pulling it up as a deep well that you are working to receive that which you strive for. And when I tell you it is noticed, IT IS. I have a book I have sitting in my Kitchen on display. It is Titled, An Affair With A House by Bunny Williams, and another that was gifted to me Christmas of 1997, I was only 17. It was gifted to me by my Aunt Cathy and it is Titled, Creating A SenseSational Home by Terry Willits. It states on the cover, "Awaken the senses to bring life & love to your home." Not only did this awaken me it ignited my passion for my Home and Life in ALL I do. If that isn't the gift that has kept on giving all these years, Mercy I don't know what is.....
You always hear of people talking about Mama's or Grandmama's Cooking, it is simmered and basted in ALL they possess, and everyone who crosses their kitchens or sits at their tables feels it. They LOVE what they do! They force feed us delicious bites that although so delicious and savoring, you weren't even hungry but they entranced us in their Magical way and so we would eat and eat it all! They continue to offer to whip up something special just for us because of their Passion. Furthermore, they desire to impart it, to delight you , share with you and give to you. This is what we need for the Happiest of Holidays. There is a distinct difference when we are moved by what we are doing and just crossing things off a list. I know, I know. I am so far behind on my tasks for this Christmas Season but I am refusing to allow it to taint my Passion, I have to make myself or allow myself relish in it all. I have been sick for a solid week, it pained me to have to stare at my naked trees, but it would be the lift I needed to attempt at a few tasks each day. I would feel the panic and worry of what all I haven't accomplished or truly even started to sneak into my thoughts as those unwanted intruders, and as I focused on that, I lost the spark and the Umph of what I was doing. How easily that happens, to us all...
It is truly a Wonderment of Life to rise above the things that try to take our Passions. It can even be good things, but we need to focus in and allow ourselves to pour into what we do, it will change even the way you do it. You see the ones who possess this a lot during this Holiday Season, they have that "something" that is different as they whistle or hum out their Carol or theres a pep to their step as they Deck those Halls or almost squeal as they found that Perfect gift! It is Magical. I am moved when I see this with Delight and I invite and allow their flame to engulf me and enthusiastically not only carry out my lists but to impart it to everyone around me. Isn't this why people would go door to door and sing Christmas Carols to strangers? I haven't done that in years, I am sad to say, however when I was lucky enough to be a part of doing it, we were so giddy and excited to see the reactions to our audience as they opened their doors to the surprise of our Hearts stirred by giving to them. That is what we must take with us in ALL we do, that is the Christmas Spirit we have read of since little Children. That is what will be remembered. If we take this time to bask in what is meant only for the each of us within this Wonderful Season we will be changed forevermore. I am taking that time to allow myself to wander and see where my heart takes me in my gift giving as I give of ALL of my heart as I endeavor to find just that right gift that as with my Aunt Cathy will be just what was needed. I am taking the time to allow myself to offer to whip up something special for those who I entertain in my kitchen as never before, and as I stay up in those wee hours of the night baking all the goodies I can muster up I will allow my heart to pour into them even more as our finest examples have shown. As I tie that bow I may say a special prayer for the one that will receive it. Find your Passions and give like you have never before this Christmas.
I encourage you to Custom Fit your Christmas Season, Super Size it, or as Burger King would say, Have it your way! Add a new tradition, bring one out of retirement, just whatever you do get immersed in this Wonderment and let your Passions guide you! I leave you with one of my favorite Christmas songs, throwing it back to N'Sync Days! But it is sure to put some pep in your step and make you dance a little too if you are lucky...
