Chelle Summer

Holiday Season Thoughts

Michelle Rusk

I have written many times in the past about finding balance in life and I’ve always heard about the importance of keeping our lives balanced during the holiday season (although not said that way, it’s always been about having a less stressful holiday season).

The universe has taught me some hard lessons this holiday season, ones I am aware of with still a week until Christmas itself.

I also have often said that I hear God the loudest during the holiday season, speaking to me through Our Lady of Guadalupe whose feast day is also my birthday.

This year I took a running start into the holidays, prepping Chelle Summer starting in July. But I was quickly disappointed when my first events didn’t go so well. I don’t want to dwell on this other than to say the world keeps changing and what worked last year, didn’t work this year. I have tried to listen to God, believing that maybe he’s been telling me to make some changes in directions and things that I do. I also know that sometimes the message gets sent more than once although we don’t always hear it or act on it so it gets sent again. While I won’t reveal what those messages were now, I got them and I’m working on them!

But there have been messages that have been hard to act on simply because there are only so many hours in the day. I can’t remember ever having such a busy holiday season. Granted, things are always busier than other times of the year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, this one has been an exception.

Taking all of this into consideration, I realized that there were things I didn’t need to focus on during this time because they were taking away from not just the meaning and enjoyment of the season, but the messages I really wanted to act on during this time.

As we come closer to Christmas Day, I hope that the season has been all that you wanted it to be and more. If it hasn’t been, remember we all have the opportunity to learn how to do more or do it differently. That’s why we have Christmas every year– it’s a reminder of so many things which would be a whole blog by itself.

For me, this year is about how I can do better next year, be more balanced, to not just hear the messages but act on them.

Happy Holidays, everyone! Stay tuned for what’s to come in 2023!