Is It Your Turn Yet?

“Is It Your Turn Yet?”
December 2009

A Wondrous Time

What an amazing range of emotions one experiences during the Christmas season.

The overall Hope is for everyone to have the Love, Joy, and Peace (as the different candles on the Advent Wreath represent) during this blessed season.

As I reflect on our family having come through a very apprehensive and unsure time last season, with Beth’s medical problems, I think how it must have been for Joseph and Mary. We say this is the time of great joy, for, as we know, it turned out to be great joy for them. However, I’m certain there are other fathers out there who have traveled and not been able to find a hotel with an available room, and perhaps, felt the apprehension and fear that Joseph must have felt in not being able to provide for his betrothed, as she was probably experiencing labor contractions at the very moment he was being denied a room.

At the time when our family almost feels guilty for the joy that we are feeling this holiday season, we received a card from an old friend, our same age, that we had lost track of. She had the sad task of informing us that she lost her husband, our friend, this past November, to cancer.

The emotions of the season, positively and negatively, are so high, that it shows why the adjectives “Wondrous” and “Hopeful” are used so often.

I dictate this as I snowshoe through the quiet and beautiful woods. Whether it be positive joy or fearful, sad emotions you are feeling, hopefully by getting out into the amazing beauty and serenity of snow covered fields or snow covered woods which God has created, each of us can put perspective on the wondrous world He presents to us.

Our family sincerely wishes everyone love at all times during the year and hopefully, each one of us will find Peace, Joy and Hope someplace, somehow.

As for wonderment, isn’t it amazing that we already are on “double digits” for this century?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Written by: Dr. Daniel L. Steinke