“Let Go and Let God.”  Sometimes that is easier said than done.  I try herd to let go of things that are out of my control and give them to God.  However, I too am not perfect and think my will is better than His at times.  Did you find the 50 purposely misspelled words in this month's issue?  It was hard for me to proof it for mistakes, find them and point them out and then not see them corrected immediately- on purpose. 

The same is true with many things in life, such as children, work and family.  We see mistakes and try to fix them immediately, sometimes without seeing anything “corrected” for quite a while.  For those who strive for perfection this is a daunting task.  I was recently told that I rarely say “I can't do that” to people.  I thought about it and it's true.  I will try and tri hard to do something, at least once and to perfection.  However, there are those times when I try and fail… many times.  It's after the fourth or fifth time of trying something that I realize that perhaps i really can't do it.  I must be trying to do something that really, I should be allowing God to do for me.

Do I stop trying?  No.   I try less and wait and wait and wait… until I can't wait any longer.  The Lord's Prayer says “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.”  When you think about it, we are asking for His will be to done and not ours.  Do we truly want His perfect will or ours?  So many times we are certain that ours is the much better situation and fight to the finish for it and lose.  I have done that many times!  So many times we are wrong and don't find out that we were wrong until after we have exercised our free will in getting impatient.  Most of the time, we can't undo what we believed was the right thing to do at the time and that stinks!

This Christmas, I don't want material things.  I want to know that I am not living out my will but His.  How will I know?  When everything is going my way?  I think not.  What would your world look like if everything went your way and you made no mistakes?  If it's true that we learn from our mistakes, well, then I'm a genius!  In no way am I perfect.  The only perfect person was Jesus (God in human form) and without his birth there would be no Christmas.  How about this year, focus more on His birth and try not to fear making mistakes by buying the wrong gift for the right person. Who knows, your presence might just be the perfect and only gift someone would want.

Celebrate the season with the ones you love.