A Cure for Post Christmas Let Down

By: Eliza Bloom - [self]

No matter how majestic and enchanting your celebration, the post-Christmas let-down is a very real phenomenon. We all arrive back to reality a little shaken from all the excess.

On Christmas Day, my home was filled with neighbors and nieces and friends who dropped by. My kitchen countertop was filled to overflowing with walnuts, tiny pink peppermint meringues, spicy sausages, smoky cheeses, a strange collection of mustards, and Aunt Bernice's Atkins-approved sugar-free chocolates.

This countertop display was a community effort. Each guest brought way more than was needed, which is a natural thing to do in this season when we celebrate abundance-when we celebrate the torrential downpour of good things in this life, and so bring some of our favorites to share on our friends' crowded countertop.

For a day or so, we set aside any notion of scarcity. We give our children new and shiny things. We slather them with time and energy. For a day or so, we do not scrape and hoard and say this is mine and not yours. For a day or so, we do not say that we don't have enough. We do not say there's no room in our heart, no room at our table, no room in our inn. For a day or so, we are full to bursting, and not just from prime rib and peppermint candies.

It feels good to know, over the holidays, that anyone who leaves my house does so with full hands. So I take some Time on this holiday-hangover day to identify those things that are naturally and eternally abundant in this world. Things I can give my guests even after the last Godiva truffle is long gone.

What are those things? Today I can think of three. There is peace. There is love. There is joy. And it is up to us to recognize that the only thing that can stand in the way of their dispersal is our own forgetting that we are the ones charged with the task.

And so we cure the post-Christmas let-down only with a deliberate and conscious lifting up, of ourselves and of anyone else who comes knocking at our door. Let that be our task today.

Copyright 2003 by Eliza Bloom

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