The holiday season is upon us this week. Creatives, businesses and busy moms have already been planning for months to have a sucessessful (if hectic) holiday season.
In my mind, yes, Christmas gifts are wonderful and finding or receiving the “perfect” gift is great, but this year time is the most important gift for me.
See, my family has not been all together since July 2014. While my husband, children and I spent the year in Hawaii, my sister and her husband live in Colorado and my brother is in Kentucky. Having been apart from each other, the time we have this holiday season means a lot more.
Joyfully we’ll gather at Christmas, sing songs, spoil each other and play in the inevitable Wisconsin snow. What will be more important than those events will be the time invested in relationships.
As we all know, you never know when you’ll have your last chance to spend time with someone. I challenge you to push aside the importance of the materialistic holiday season and instead make relationships matter most as you give the precious gift of your time.
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