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.



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