Holiday Stresss

Hi Ya'll!
It's been a long time since I have written to you and honestly I do not know what to write, so I am going to just write what is on my heart. In our world today, we live with information right at our fingertips via face book, Instagram etc. Although I blog, I do not post pics of everything that I or my family do all day long every day, I am more private that way I guess. But when I scrolled through during the Christmas holiday, all I saw was the perfect pics of anything from trees, cookies, smiling kids etc.  I think that this gives such unreal reality, I mean don't get me wrong, I have a great family and dogs, kids, husband etc. BUT it is all not perfect. The only perfection that ever existed was Jesus!
     I was quite saddened in my heart on Christmas eve as my family went to the Monestary for mass on Christmas eve. Not only did my daughter not come, but there were many empty pews for one of the Holiest holidays in Christianity. The birth of our Savior Jesus Christ! As a mother, I cant fully explain the sadness when one of your family members is void of being there. It is not the same sadness as if the person were passed away it is the sadness of disappointment.   I believe we all deal with what God gives us and without him we need to realize that we are nothing, our world is nothing. Christmas eve was nice, I spent it with my husband and son and we had a nice evening after spending some time with our friends the nuns at church. My friend from Tanzania Sr. Agnes told my husband that I was her sister. That filled my heart with great joy, I just love her she has such a sweet goodness in her soul that you feel so happy and peaceful just being around her.  On Christmas our neighbors came over and we had a nice meal together and all four of us were there for dinner. Me, my husband, son and daughter.
   My mom squad sister Robin, gave me a beautiful verse in the Bible to share with you: James 1 :2-4.
"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result so that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing."

She was nice enough to come up with that after I told her how aggravated I felt cleaning and complaining to her about stuff like cleaning up dog hair from a dog that was supposed to be "shed free" Sometimes I think we let little things bother us and make us feel mean inside. If you know me, you know I am  a happy person. I don't like feeling like mean snappy mom and then look on face book  at all of the staged smiley faces. Maybe I am alone, but I think that this persona of perfection is ruining us as a society and I witnessed it at the Eve of Christ's birth the other night when very few people could manage an hour to go visit with the Lord. I think that is one of the things that bothers me the most, that people are not seeking God and I am watching evil running the earth everyday every time I turn on the news. I think if we spent more time seeking God and loving each other as God wanted us too, our world would be a much better place.