I must be a bad father. I really must. I don't think Christmas is a family holiday. Thanksgiving, sure. Memorial Day. Father's Day. Mother's Day. The list goes on.
You see, with Christmas just around the corner, I'm not feeling a desperate need to make up for lost family time. I don't feel a need to spend extra time with my kids. I don't feel my marriage needs tons and tons of extra time this time of year. I don't feel guilty for taking my family to the community gathering of grateful followers of the Babe in a manger (You call it going to church). I don't struggle with my calling versus my family. Because most weeks, daddy is home. Daddy eats diner with the family. Many if not most days, I manage to get home for lunch. I am there when my kids get up, I'm there when they go to bed. I schedule my meeting late in the evening, do receipts sometimes at 10:30 at night.
I realize that my life is different. That I can control my schedule in a way that many others can't, supposedly. Fair enough. But if the Holidays are "makeup for missed time" maybe you need to reconsider how you spend the other 364 days. Change your job. Lower your standard of living. Teach your kids that people are more important than stuff.
I for one am glad that Jesus wasn't feeling lack of family time with his Dad. He left the glories of Heaven to come to earth to grow his family.
This Christmas season, make good decisions. Choose to stay home, choose to participate in corporate worship. But don't use the guilt thing about family time. That just shows where you are at, not where others are.
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Dear Terri,My husband and I had the joys of merging family traditions when we first got married. At times my ideas seems crazy to him and vise versa but after talking through them we began our own family traditions! The traditions evolved when we began having children. We make ornaments every year for ourselves, our boys, and the grandparents.Lately I’ve been trying to make sure Christmas is about the celebration of Jesus’s Birth, not about santa. It was after a bedtime prayer with my oldest son last year when he thanked God for having Santa being born oh and Jesus too. It made me realize we missed the point of the season. So we are making a few alterations to this years traditions, to keep Christ in Christmas. Thank you for your inspiration to do more and to get better!Kerri Bosma
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