Christmas Thoughts

As Christmas approaches: An Attitude of Gratitude will make this season a real blessing! Christmas Thoughts for 2007.

We all see others with more than we have and feel a little envy. Sometimes it's not greed, just the awareness that we could make good use of this or that, at home or work, to do a better job in our daily tasks or enjoy a little more comfort in life.

Many people have real needs not met, and all of us seem to have a difficult time differentiating between needs and wants.

If we embrace a healthy attitude of gratitude between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we should be able to deal with the January credit card statements with peace instead of shock.

Healthy Christmas Thoughts...

Here are a couple of ideas to help sort out the consumer lust this season brings.

First, if it’s a great idea today, it will be a great idea tomorrow. Don’t make any impulsive purchase. Decide if it is a need or want, and look at the checkbook before going any further. If it’s a real need, you will not care what the credit card or bank ledger says after the purchase. If it is a want, wait a day or two, and then go for it if you still feel the desire you felt at the store that first day.

Second, don’t buy anything just to make you feel better. You will always come back to your ‘emotional center’, and if your not happy with yourself, you won’t be happy after any particular purchase for long.

Third, don’t go shopping without a list of ‘who’ you are shopping for and ‘what’ you are need to get. In addition, a rough budget for gifts can help when you need more help making a decision.

Fourth, take inventory of how much you have. We must search to find a balance between what we have and what we want. Take a look at the following article, and realize you are probably very blessed right now. Then go into the Malls and have a great time. Giving is fun, knowing you thought it through before you stepped out the door.

Attitude of Gratitude

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace... you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with good health you are more fortunate than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle unfolding all around you, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you are ahead 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of persecution, harassment, arrest, torture, or death... you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married...you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Author Unknown


Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! May Peace and Joy be yours the whole year through,

Greg Vail

For more Christmas Thoughts - See Lee Stroble's Article on the Real Meaning of Christmas @ Purpose Driven.

One More - Check out a great little article by Mary Southerland on finding Christmas Joy. It is written to women but I am a guy and think it hits the mark 100%.

The most important Christmas Thoughts - The Christmas Message by Rick Warren


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