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No Frizzy Tizzy- at least I'm trying not to
Earlier this week I realized that in lowering my expectations for myself I was not lowering my standards. I was, instead, giving myself room to breathe, grow and listen. Room to be and enjoy.It has often been very easy for me to get caught up in the craziness that is December. I no longer go hog-wild with the gift purchasing but I’ve replaced that with a constant worry about what I’m going to get that fits in the budget and trying to think up a gift for someone who has everything or has much more expensive tastes than I can afford. I don’t make four different types of cookies with a special personalized and decorated plate but I spend excessive time agonizing over other small and large, yet mostly non-essential details.
In a sense, I’ve found I’ve been wasting valuable time.
I don’t have to write a blog post every day, make homemade Christmas ornaments from lint, wire and ribbon, whip up a nutritious and well-rounded meals each night, send a Christmas card to everyone who sends me one or feel bad that I’m going to do more e-greetings than 42cent ones this year.
But
I wish I could get past the blasted gift-giving worries.
Hey, I’m a work in progress.
I’m promising myself not to dwell on those worries and get myself in a frizzy tizzy.
In fact, I’m making it a matter of prayer. I have to admit that I would daily get myself in a frizzy tizzy over it. Really. And I just don’t want to.
90% of the gift getting is done.
Of course, I’ve left the hardest ones for last.
I’m waiting for the inspiration that follows my excessive perspiration caused by the . . . . .
frizzy tizzy worrying.
But I just said I don’t want to do that.
Wasn’t it Paul who spoke on the dilemma of weighing what I want to do on one hand and what I always end up doing on the other?
Hmmm.
Is it worth spending an extra $5-$10 to eliminate the frizzy tizzies?
But what about the fact that this is The Year of the Incredibly Shrinking Budget?
When I calculate and add up those extra $2 here, $5 there and another $10 here deals it adds up to an amount that would put gas in the car and food in the larder for a couple of weeks! That is money that can NOT be “wasted”.
So how does one lower one’s expectations without going over-budget?
Prayer.
He knows my budget better than I do. To some it may seem silly to say “Hey, this Christmas I’m going to pray about what gifts to give.”
But where I’m sitting- it seems silly NOT to.
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