Who
wants to be alone on Christmas? I live very far from my family and plane
tickets at Christmas are not something I can afford. Not to mention the difficulty in finding a
place to put my pug while I am out of town.
I stay in Arizona over the holidays.
I have spent a few Christmas days
alone. (You are never alone when you
have Jesus right?). I have gone to
movies by myself on Christmas. One year
I went to San Diego. One year I made myself a small ham and rested
the whole day.
Last year I was “encouraged” to spend time with friends on
Christmas because “nobody wants to be alone on Christmas”. Anyway, I was invited to join a friend and
her family for Christmas. I felt very
awkward. Here I was this pathetic
single woman and I was crashing this families precious Christmas memories. I vowed not to do that again. Knowing I would again get the “you can’t be
alone on Christmas” pressure, I prayed.
I prayed very hard last year that I would NOT be alone on Christmas this
year. Not only would I not be alone, I
wanted to be somewhere that didn’t make me feel like a 3rd wheel or
a party crasher.
When GOD answers prayers, he does so abundantly! A recently divorced teacher invited me to
join her for breakfast. Two of my
friends from College invited me to get together with them. I have also been invited to join two
families from my church. GO GOD.
I went to the breakfast of the
divorced woman and enjoyed getting to know 8 new women I have never met. (We decided to call it the orphan breakfast). After the breakfast I went over to my BFF’s
house and we had a nice dinner with some mutual friends. GOD answers prayers. I was not alone and even more important, I
did not find myself in any weird social situations. When I said that prayer a year ago, I did
not know how GOD was going to work it out, but he had it all planned out and it
was perfect. GOD is AWESOME!
I
can’t wait to see what amazing blessings he has in store for me next Christmas!
~Sunny
:D
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