Having Room for Christmas
“She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger, because there was no room.” [1]
This is a phrase we’ve heard all of our lives at Christmas time. There was no room for them in the inn. Therefore, Jesus was born in a stable and it was this that began our annual Christmas celebrations. However, I’d like to give you a new thought or something to think about when it comes to this phrase. There was no room. There was no room for Mary and Joseph as the story goes. Thus there was no room for Jesus. If we substitute Christmas for Jesus, the statement would sound like this: “there was no room for Christmas.”
Is this how your life looks? You have no room for Christmas. Like that inn, is your life so filled that there are no vacancies for what really matters?
No vacancy for what really matters?
I often say, people find time to do what they want to do. While this is true in part, it’s not totally true. There’s another part to consider. The average person mismanages time and therefore runs out of time to do the things they really wish to do, the way they wish to do it. This is what I’m calling no vacancy. The average person runs out of time to purchase the right gifts at Christmas, then must settle on any gift. The normal person wishes to relax and enjoy Christmas, but rather finds it stressful and overloaded with activity. The common person loses track of what needs to be done, then must rush to get as much of it done while making sacrifices on what could get done. Are you one of these people? A person who has no room in the inn? A person with no vacancy? A person who has no room for Christmas?
No room for Christmas.
If you’re living a life where it’s hard to find time to get everything done, then more than likely you’re like this inn. There certainly isn’t much time you can give to Christmas. By the way, this is normal. Normal is that person who can’t find time for what really matters. I believe the people reading this either are not in that category or are putting himself or herself in position to be a new category. What category is that? People who wish to take their life to the next-level. A person who is willing to do whatever it takes to make space for what matters. A person who will make room for Christmas.
Life is funny in that things just don’t happen on its own. It’s something that must be done. We must make it happen. If we need room in our lives for what matters, we must make room. We must make room even if it means we have to put some things out. In order to make room for what matters, we must free ourselves up from the things that do matter. As we often say, this is your life and your life is your business [to run].
It’s easy to lack a vacancy in one’s life because living in overload is what everyone else does. To have a next-level Christmas requires some next-level actions. Do what it takes to not only have room for what matters this Christmas, but rather make room for Christmas.
Question: Will you be like “the inn,” what’s normal, natural, and common or will you be like the stable? Have you made room for Christmas?
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1] Luke 2:6-7 MSG, Bible.com, accessed December 19, 2022, https://www.bible.com/bible/97/LUK.2.7.MSG
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