What I would like you to do to begin is to picture the ideal Christmas?
What would be there?
Would there be friends?
Would there be your family?
Would there be a huge feast?
I can kinda picture a beautiful Czech meal on Christmas evening, and then a silent ride to Church and back on a wooden/metal sleigh drawn by a few horses through the deep snow in the woods? I can almost hear the swishing of the sleigh as it pushes it was through the snow? and the only other sound in the woods is a simple ringing of bells? I can picture sitting down with Daniela and my family and opening gifts on Christmas morning?
If we were going to look at all of the elements that make up a perfect Christmas, perhaps we would include what?
Family
Friends
Good food
Great fellowship
Candle-lighting service
Gifts
All of these elements are wonderful, but what happens when something messes up? What happens when the goose is burnt, the gifts break, some of the family cannot come to visit, others in the family are angry and won't come, some friends are missed? the list can go on and on?.
We become frustrated
We become angry
We might even yell or throw something
Or we might just weep?
Maybe we might even find ourselves thinking as ...