My Christmas Wish

We are on the “ber” months now and this means that Christmas being the most important and exciting season of the whole year for Christians is just around the corner.

Generally Christmas wish is attributed to children who depicts this season as a time of receiving gifts from people who love and care for them.  And for adults, it’s time for proper budgeting in order to properly allocate funds for gifts to be given to love ones, friends and whoever they want to share their blessings.  But now as an adult I also have a Christmas wish and pray that our Lord will find me worthy enough for this gift which I need to ask from Him. 

Abnormal season brought about by global warming had created disasters never experienced before in most part of the globe.  Our place had not been spared and the havoc that nature had brought us was in the form of flood which destroyed properties and claimed lives.  Ten years ago, a flooding story in our area would be considered a fiction but when a typhoon locally named “Ondoy” ravaged our country  on September 2009 this story had become a reality.  The wide devastation sowed terror and embedded an unpleasant memory to minds of residents that triggers anxiety once rain starts pouring heavily. 

This has resulted to my Christmas wish to have a new home in a place where we could again enjoy sleeping soundly despite heavy rain.   I want it to be located in a flood free and landslide free area, and if possible far from established earthquake faults and in a peaceful community.  I know that this wish will have to consider a lot of factors to bring this to reality and foremost is the financial capacity.  And, this is the greatest drawback for our desire of acquiring a new home now.  We want one that we could really call our own and not a rented place where our right to stay depends solely on the owner’s decision on what to do with his property.   Actually my daughter and I had already formulated a plan more than a year ago on how to make this possible but fate interfered and funds allocated for this purpose was diverted to unforeseen hospitalization expenses.  Result of this twist however is a priceless gift, a bundle of joy to all of us, the life of my son’s first baby who is the latest addition to our family.  

Rain had been recurring for days in our place now and a couple of months ago we experienced flooding again.  Although this is very much lesser and not as destructive as Ondoy but every time there is heavy rain pour so goes also the apprehension that we could not just shake off.  If raining is happening at night we could not sleep well out of fear that flood-waters may catch us offhanded.   

Last year we anticipated celebrating this year’s Christmas under a new roof on a place we have conceived but as this seems now  to be not manageable, I am now lifting up this Christmas wish into the will and grace of our Lord.  I believe that He will eventually grant this to us IN HIS TIME and know that 'His time' is just the right time for us to enjoy it.  May our Lord Jesus grant my Christmas wish IN HIS SOONEST TIME.  Merry Christmas and God bless everyone.