It’s Christmas and I Miss My Momma

So it’s December 24^th Christmas Eve, and I miss my Momma. Today I was scrolling Facebook and I saw so many people who like me missed their momma. I began to think about what I do when this season comes along. Well I take a trip down memory lane. I get on the good memory and happy feeling lane.

God has given us a beautiful facet/tool in our mind called the imagination. What is the imagination?  Imagination is the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses.  I use this tool many ways, but today I begin to recall all the fun that my momma and my dad too had during Christmas. My time with them was so much fun. Mom in the kitchen cooking a delicious dinner inclusive of ALL my favorites! The music would be blasting, we had a unique stereo it was a Grundig Majestic, had shortwave radio and everything! Charles Brown would be bellowing out Please Come Home for Christmas, Christmas Comes but Once a Year, and Merry Christmas Baby! Next the Drifters White Christmas would be next!

By now things were at a place in the kitchen where things could move into the piano room where the caroling would begin. My mother, who was a musician, would play, Joy to the World the Lord IS come, not has come. Just so you know! (Laughter). Next It came upon the Midnight Clear, and finally ending with Jesus, Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child! Glory to the new born King!

I shared this portion of my Christmas past with you so that I can let you in on what I do when I miss my momma at Christmas. I take a trip down memory lane and reflect and recall all the things that brought me great joy through the vehicle of my imagination. Once again I feel a degree of comfort.

Also I am reminded of a scripture found in

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

¹³ Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. ¹⁵ According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.

I am comforted in knowing that I will see them again! So as you find yourself not in a happy place use the tool of your imagination to transport you to your happy place and take comfort IN KNOWING YOU WILL SEE THEM AGAIN!

So from me to you,

Merry Christmas!

Patricia