Christmas Day Reminders

Today is not all about funs. In a quest for enjoying life more, one still needs to balance the call to be everything you should be as a person, everything that is good and honourable and pure and lovely inside of you, and not becoming self-indulgent to the point that you don't maintain a value you have. People say "remember the reason for the season" and it's desperately cliché by now, but the "reason for life" as far as I believe and understand it is not just to make yourself happy. Sometimes you don't do something you want to do, and that's the much better choice.

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As part of my insistence to maintain transparency with you as I go through my December funs, I am going to say that sometimes, you get to the point where you feel as though you should have everything that makes you happy. That wasn't the intention of this exercise. This exercise is not about becoming a hedonist in the true sense of the word, but rather it is about seeing the value in all the experiences that you have, because of the knowledge that God is in all of those experiences. 

I was trying to find this article I read in the last week about purity and the benefit of a personal morality to live your life by, but alas, my Christmas food and family fed brain is muddled. I'll leave you with this last thought - you can't become shaped (read: build something in particular) if you're willing to add or subtract any and every thing. In a quest to experience and appreciate the good in everyday, don't forget that you have a responsibility yourself to do good and sometimes if you're not actively pursuing good, you're actively pursuing something... else.