{"id":232,"date":"2015-12-28T08:41:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-12-28T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:26:45","slug":"farewell-minnesota-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/resantana\/2015\/12\/28\/farewell-minnesota-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Minnesota Christmas&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I can&#8217;t quite let go of Christmas yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I mean, every year when December and the Christmas season are coming to a close, we begrudgingly get back into the routines of daily life, but this year, knowing that this is probably our last white, Minnesotan Christmas for a while, I am even more reluctant to dismantle the tree, the greens, the hanging cinnamon stars, and the cozy, stringed lights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I am even more reluctant to end the daily gatherings at my parent&#8217;s or siblings&#8217; homes, sitting by the wood-burning stove, playing games, reading together, going on morning, winter walks or evening moonlit strolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I am reluctant to let this season end, literally and figuratively speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I know it is a process, of letting go, of holding on, of saying goodbye, of saying hello, er&#8230;hola. But still&#8230;.it&#8217;s hard. It is a PROCESS. Just like much of life; growing up, getting older, experiencing sorrows and joys and mountains and valleys and days of triumph and days that feel like a failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">This process of life, of seasons&#8230;..it&#8217;s hard stuff. It really is, but to resist it, I think, would only make it worse, as hard as it is, I am learning to be fully aware and to be consciously and intentionally apart of it. To be awake to the changes and the feelings and emotions of it all, to not let it drown me, but be okay with feeling sad or feeling excited. To be okay with it being messy and not exactly what I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">But the hope of process for me is, we do not have to do it alone. We are all in process, in different seasons, in motion, in change, but we are not alone. I am so thankful for the community of support around us, for our friends and family who have known or know that seasons and different processes we are going through and offer us their space and time to process with them. We are so thankful!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">I am so thankful for Christ and how he intentionally and purposefully chooses to\u00a0travel with us through every season and process, daily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Just today, as I was spending sometime alone, thinking on the past year and how some parts of it were so hard and ugly and thinking to myself, &#8220;what a waste that time was, I wish I could re-do or re-live those moments and do things differently&#8221; or, &#8220;I wish I never had to go through that season, that I could have erased that moment in my life&#8221;. Instantly after I thought that, I felt in my heart, God saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">&#8220;It was not for nothing, it was not in vain, it was not lost.\u00a0The things that you think are dead are breathing in life again. In silence, I was and am there. I am in the grief. I am in the seemingly wasted years, in the mistakes, in the ashes, in the pain, in the unnoticed, in the broken\u2026look closer, look closer, I was there and am there. I am there. There is no \u201cwasted\u201d or \u201clost\u201d in me. I am NOT a passive Father&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">And it is so true. He isn&#8217;t passive, in the waiting, in the silence, in the proceses, in the different seasons, he is not passive, he is right with us, walking with us. Oh, that my eyes would be open to Him. OH, that even when I don&#8217;t see or feel, that I would choose to believe. Oh that I would choose to believe!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">So, in this process of &#8220;lasts&#8221; and in this season of change and bittersweetness, I am going to try to have my eyes wide open to each moment, to intentionally be apart of the process and the season, whatever one it may be, I want to be apart of it, not wishing it were over, or trying to blur the days away, but through the mountain highs or valley lows, singing out to remind my soul, that I am not alone and I am not alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">So maybe we&#8217;ll keep the tree up just a little bit longer and we will linger\u00a0just a little while longer in the moments we are together, and be thankful for this season and the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"line-height: 30.6px\">The Santanas<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a 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I am even more reluctant to end the daily gatherings at my parent&#8217;s or siblings&#8217; homes, sitting by the wood-burning stove, playing games, reading together, going on morning, winter walks or evening moonlit strolls. I am reluctant to let this season end, literally and figuratively speaking. I know it is a process, of letting go, of holding on, of saying goodbye, of saying hello, er&#8230;hola. But still&#8230;.it&#8217;s hard. It is a PROCESS. Just like much of life; growing up, getting older, experiencing sorrows and joys and mountains and valleys and days of triumph and days that feel like a failure. This process of life, of seasons&#8230;..it&#8217;s hard stuff. It really is, but to resist it, I think, would only make it worse, as hard as it is, I am learning to be fully aware and to be consciously and intentionally apart of it. 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