Christmas is over, let's go back to our lives

Christmas is over.

We can now turn off the 'holiday cheer' attitude that we turned on for one month out of the year.

Time to flash a look of anger and maybe say a choice word to that person who came the wrong way in a parking lot and took our parking spot.

Time to quit being so patient in the line at the grocery store or post office, and purposefully let out a loud sigh when the person at the counter doesn't have their things together...who is causing a delay in the line.

Time to sweep discord back out from under the carpet (where we swept them last month), and re-engage in open strife with those around us. Backbiting, gossip and slander are welcomed again...until mid-November next year.

Time for shouts and sign language to other drivers...until the week before Thanksgiving next year.

The homeless and hurting will be fine for the next ten and a half months. They do just come out of the woodwork in November and December, don't they?

How fortunate we are to have a turn-on, turn-off faith. Isn't it great to know we will only be judged by the Lord for our actions and attitude during the mid-November-to-late-December timeframe? (Oh, and our Sunday morning actions and attitude, too.)

Our God is so merciful. He overlooks our January-to-October lives of self-absorption and fleshly living.

He showers nothing but mercy for our Monday-through-Saturday living. It's okay His heart aches and breaks six days of the week and ten and a half months of the year. Our righteousness on Sunday morning and November/December heals His heart and grants us favor from all else we do.

Bless us, Lord. Bless our lives, though we only give You a fraction of the week and year!

Bless our country, Lord. Though we don't stand up against the increasing godlessness in it. "God bless America" anyway! It's our right! Our forefathers loved and served You. It's okay that we don't stand up and proclaim You, Jesus. You just go ahead and bless us for our country's past instead of what we're currently doing and living as a nation.

Bless us, Lord, for these next ten and a half months. We'll mention You out of the corner of our mouths in mid-November next year.

In the mean time, watch over our favorite sports teams and give us everything we ask for, so our lives can be comfortable and blessed. And if any tragedies or disasters happen between now and then, why'd You cause or allow those?

We love you, Lord! See Ya!