Well 15 days left until Christmas and two weeks exactly until Christmas Eve. In my imagination I see a Castle sparkling on top of a snow covered hill and inside there are 100’s of elves painting and sawing using soldering guns and trying to figure it out the placement of electronic panels in the new toys. The smallest of the elves are working on micro-circuitry and they are all longing for the old days when toys were pretty much made of wood.
Santa is busy checking his list for the second time and Mrs. Claus is mending the suit. Last year Santa got it caught on a fire place poker and it split the pants… well let’s just say Santa was a little colder in the back last year.
The imagination works a little over time at Christmas as we picture the things both real and fantastic that makes Christmas special in so many ways.
It’s good to put our minds to work at Christmas and use all of the skills and gifts God has given us. If we paint or write stories or do crafts or cook or bake all of the things that we love to do should be part of our yearly celebrations. This is a time that we should show love to other people by using our own special skills. And it doesn’t have to be just those skills that are artistic, it can also be those gifts that are technical or mathematical. If you like to fix cars give a friend or a neighbor the gift of an oil change. If you are a whiz with numbers and you know someone really well offer to help them with their taxes. Or balance someone’s check book. Even better, offer to teach them to do, what you can do, for themselves, as a gift. The old saying is always true. Catch a man a fish feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish feed for a life time.
However you decide to use your talents do it with great joy and feel God’s pleasure as you give to others what he has given you. That’s one of the key lessons of Christmas. We were made for so many incredible purposes and all of them can find fulfillment as we serve God and each other. We become more and more fulfilled as we use what we have for the benefit of others and to the glory of God.