Prepare For Life

Are you ready for Christmas? This is a trick question. I am not asking if you have started shopping for the gifts that you will then wrap and deliver nor the cookies you plan to bake, the decorations you want to put out, nor the cards you hope to get in the mail before next year. I am not asking about how ready you are for Christmas in these ways, but I want to know how you are? Is your spirit prepared for Christmas this year, or will the celebration of the Lord's birth seem like an afterthought at the end of December, almost pushed out by the rush of preparations and festivities?