All I Want For Christmas - [Matthew]
I’ve been asked by various family members to give them a list of things I want for Christmas. No problem, I said. So I sat down to brainstorm a whole list of things they could buy. But no brainstorm. Not even a brain raindrop. I sat there for an hour, trying to think of things I needed. Finally, I expanded the focus. Go nuts, Matthew. Forget needs, what do you want? Think big. So I did. After some time, I looked at the meager list: CD versions of albums I grew up with in the 80s, old NES and Sega Genesis games... basically (and unconsciously) trying to reconstruct my childhood in some way or another.
I delivered that list and received the response: ‘Can you expand that list some?’
Okay, yeah. I can. Since you asked, here’s what I really want for Christmas:
1. I want to be able to step out of my house in the Central Florida suburbs and disappear into some mountainous Pacific-esque sylvan wonderland to reconnect with God, to defrag my heart, to sweat out the anxiety-stress-disappointment cocktail swimming in my system.
2. I want to find a healthy balance between work and life and stop taking refuge in busyness.
3. I want to be the husband my wife deserves.
4. I want my friends who are currently fighting God on various issues to stop needlessly hurting them themselves and just surrender.
5. (see #4, except applied to me)
6. I want to experience the satisfaction of beginning and completing a great task, instead of wasting my time worrying about wasting my time.
7. I want to audibly hear God say ‘hey, you’re doing all right, son. Hang in there.’
Can you wrap that up for me? Can you put in a bid on EBay for those things? Because that’s what I really, truly want for Christmas this year.
[end ping]
posted by Etcetera at 9:50 AM
7 Comments:
WOW !! That was really good.
I must apologize to you Matt, all this time I thought you were just another human being like me, But you are so much more, perhaps even a super hero. You rule!!
When you figure out how to defrag your brain, let me know, I need it too.
Groupie,
Glenn
I was just sending Erik some stuff and I thought about your list and how right it is so to follow in your steps I have a Christmas wish
Erik knows it already it goes like this....
"...I'm infected with you pull the plug already,tell me before I go that your infected with me...."
I'm still here so I am still waiting to hear that.
Have a wonderful Christmas Matthew I hope you get everything on your posted list!
Be loved
Well said.
I was going to say all that too, but after writing down my #1 choice, a Nintendo Wii, I got distracted watching Deal or No Deal.
No deal.
Señor Jefe strikes again! Funny.
Hey Groupie Glenn. Thanks for the ping, but believe me, I'm plenty human. Ask Erik or Sharon.
Mrs. Zeke, thanks. Merry Christmas to you, too.
Senor Jefe, if you get the Wii for Christmas, well, I'm coming over to your house to play. It'll be just like when I was a kid and crashed neighborhood kids' houses to play on their NES before I got my own.
MP
If I get a Wii, I'm selling it on ebay. They're going for like 800 bucks!
Wii Three Kings... a punchline looking for a home. Any takers, feel free. -Mp
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