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Holidays: Skeletons In The Closet

The Y In The Road And The Direction You Choose

As the holiday season approaches, there will be more than one person, who dredges up some old skeletons in the closet. Those skeletons can be really painful too!

The skeletons of the past won't be perfect family, perfect home or perfect world images or memories. In fact, many of them will be the exact opposite. The perfect person image in the closet mirror is probably sadly lacking too.

"So what can we do to clean out our closets?"

First of all, remember that the holiday season is focused on love, not on fear. The entire Christmas message is about God's love, manifest to us by the gift of His Son.

"Perfect love casts out fear."

When we are closet cleaning, so to speak, in our hearts, minds or lives, there are things that we are afraid to face, for one reason or another.

"What if those things surface?" we ask ourselves, knowing that they just might.

"How can we ever get past them?" we wonder.

"How will they affect our lives?" We are concerned about the future. "What about the lives of others?"

"How will our families and friends feel, if those closet door are opened?"

We are really afraid what will happen, if the truth is revealed. Our imperfections stand to be exposed, for the world to see.

But, there is one basic principle to remember.

Truth is always revealed in time.

That can be a shock to our systems, because we hope and pray, that the negative aspects of our pasts are never revealed, particularly to those who we really love.

But what we forget is the reality that love can cover a multitude of sins. "God is Love."

We have the choice of doing two things.

Either we cling to the past or let it go. We can hang more skeletons in our closet, or place the cross of Jesus Christ in the closet instead. It is up to us to make the choice. The skeleton represents the road to death, while the cross depicts the road to life.

By the way, if we do choose to place the cross of Christ in the closet, be aware that no closet is large enough to totally contain the cross. God's Spirit cannot be contained.

Sure, there is a "Y" in the road! Now we have to make a proactive choice, with respect to the direction that our lives are going to take.

Going one way, means that we can continue to try and hide our imperfect deeds and actions of the past. Reality has it that they will be uncovered eventually, no matter how we hard we try to hide them, so that would appear to be a futile approach to reality.

The second option offers

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