Well, Christmas is over and it’s just a few days until we begin the new year 2008.

This morning I started dismantling some of the Christmas decorations and stored them in cardboard boxes until next year. Christmas dinner leftovers crowd the shelves of my new refrigerator. There’s leftover turkey, smoked ham, whole sweet corn, cornbread dressing, turkey gravy,  cranberry salad, five cup salad and apple pie. It was a good Christmas with relatives and friends, nine of us in all.

Somehow today I’m having postmartem feelings now that it’s all over. There was such a lot to do before Christmas with all the preparations of decorating, shopping, buying and wrapping gifts, cooking. Now that it’s over, I feel letdown. A sadness has crept into my day, leaving me lonely and blue. The glitter is gone.

The old thoughts that were pushed aside by the busyness of Christmas are surfacing; those issues and feelings that haven’t been properly dealth with. You know how it is with something that is bothering you. You can gloss it over and cover it with activities, but eventually your mind returns to that niggling bothersome reality

 There’s nothing you can change. It is all consuming and clings like static in your mind

What is she talking about, some of you will say.  Others already know and relate.

Regardless, it is a new year and that brings a promise. It brings a promise of a happy beginning and a happy ending and better times within.
God is in control.