Thanksgiving Leads to Christmas

Christmas has become a celebration of excess and conspicuous consumption. Frequently overwhelmed, nostalgia becomes the antidote to frantic preparations, endless shopping, and huge expenses that leave us bone weary. The sermon title, "TLC: Thanksgiving Leads to Christmas," caught pastor Elaine Eachus's imagination, and she began to wonder how thankfulness might be the key that unlocks the richness of each day of the Christmas season. Being truly thankful takes time---to appreciate, to look deeply inside, to see myriads of connections coming together for good, to incorporate life changes, and to share these new insights. Living into this dimension is to see with the wide-eyed wonder of a child.
For Eachus, little moments contain the TLC--- a granddaughter coloring a Christmas tree, making candy with a friend, or a father giving his young daughter a copy of Handel's Messiah. No matter our age, there is magic and wonder within the Advent season. Eachus invites us on a twenty-eight-day journey to discover God-with-us. Accompany her on this trip that can take each of us a lifetime as we look for our unique Christmas heart.