Time is drawing near for Christmas Eve, Christmas day and everything else that follows. For me the celebration has already started since Thursday at 5pm when I left university. The celebrtion was not about Christmas, but about the accomplishment of one semester. What did I do? I did eat some chocolate and chips (to me they’re a treat) and on Saturday I hung out with two friends and played a board game, to me, those were fun times. You know, when you don’t need to think about the next exam, how much you need to study and etc. Light spirit. But now, since I’m leaving Montréal and I’m turning to Christmas, my real celebration shall start. It won’t be about the end of the semester, but about Jesus born to us.

I don’t remember if I did write on this blog at some point a few months ago about my desire to change the way I celebrate certain events, especially Christmas & Easter. But I remember reading in … Exodus I think, about how people were to celebrate certain feasts during the year. Some points that I remember is that on these feasts, people were to rest from usual work, have fellowship, eat, present offereings to the Lord. I have been looking for the entry in my “morning notebook” but I can’t find it. So I want to enter Christmas season with this in mind: that it is a time when God wants me to remember the Messiah’s birth, be filled with thankfulness, enjoy family and friends, food and simply to relax. I’m glad I can do it. I understand not everybody can. I’ve got no children, no job… only three big weeks off from university. Too bad, I have to rest.

I hope you’ll all enjoy this season in a way or another, but most of all remember Jesus. And let us give gifts to our loved ones, let’s do it because salvation has been given us and we want to celebrate.

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