Do you have a hard time celebrating?
Are holidays and birthdays and other special events more stressful than fun?
It is so easy to get caught up in the bills, the worries, and the expectations. Before you know it, days that should be set aside as special turn into traumas to be endured.
If this sounds like you, can I encourage you to engage in the joy of celebration anyway?
If the “big days” are painful triggers for you, spend some time remembering a private time when God turned “your sorrow into joy” and find a way to celebrate it! Buy someone a present, enjoy a special meal, give a gift to the poor. And let go of the guilt! You are exercising an ancient rite of praise and thanksgiving and giving glory to the God of joyful reversals!
In His Name,
Esther 9:20-22: Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews through the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
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