This is the perfect time to build Sabbath into your life. Below is my Top 10 list of how to do that!
2. Ask for help. Don't be afraid to delegate. (Especially if you are hosting a gathering. People are so happy it's not at their house, they're willing to do/bring almost anything!)
3. Find AND ACTUALLY USE an Advent devotion each morning. Get your day centered right from the start. (So many to choose from, might I suggest Luther Seminary's God Pause! (click here to subscribe to God Pause)
4. Take a walk. Make it a priority, NOT AFTER the "stuff" is done, but before! (I have gotten so good at leaving stuff "'til later" that I may just give up housekeeping altogether!)
5. Go to a mall just for the decorations and festive atmosphere. I know it sounds crazy, but leave your wallet at home and just enjoy the sights and sounds and music. Without the pressure of the lines and purchases to make, it is a lovely "indoor!" place to just be. Park faraway and use the walk in as your walk for the day(Think of it as your own personal arboretum, which someone decorated for you with great extravagance)
6. Breathe. (Please! it really is a must)
7. Get rid of 10 things. (Um sorry relatives are not an option, I was thinking more like a bundt pan unless of course you make bundt cake relatively often. In that case please drop one off...see #1!)
8. Random acts of kindness! Pay for the coffee of the stranger behind you in line, shovel a neighbor's walk...If you get stuck, click here for 101 ideas! (If you're a baker drop off Christmas cookies to someone who doesn't bake any longer...um, see #1!)
9. Sing like no one's listening. (click here to watch a Nativity reinactment of a little girl singing with abandon!)
10. Enjoy your surroundings! Lay under the tree and look up through the lights, walk through the neighborhood and watch for snowmen or pretty lights, be amazed by the snow, keep a running count of Christmas sweaters!
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