Making Your Own Christmas Magic Monday, January 05, 2009 By Caleb Cole - Advertising I love Christmas. The uplifted mood it puts me in is one I only get when Chirstmas rolls around. The music, the holiday cheer you can see in peoples' eyes, and even the weather make me, well, all fuzzy inside. It truly is a magical time of year in my heart, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. This year has seemed flat though. I didn't have the usual smile on my face and Christmas carol on my lips as I drove up and down the snow covered and decorated streets. It has been bugging me to no end and for a while I couldn't figure out why.   I finally figured it out while a co-worker and I were talking in a little bit of free time we had at work. We talked about several different people we both knew who weren't planning on a very big Christmas. This whole recession thing has just put everyone in a bit of a funk, whether it be financial or otherwise. There are so many worries and changes going on with our country right now I can't blame people for worrying. But is it really so major right now that we should let it ruin, what is in my opinion, the best day of the year?   We always see the negative in things. As hard as we try, it seems so much easier for us to look at a situation and find what is wrong with it than to look at it and see what is going well. It's almost human nature. I mean, I wake up in the morning and notice the fact my little brother needs to pick up his clothes in his room, or that somebody left the cereal open again when it could have taken about two seconds to close the box back up. I rarely wake up and notice the fact I actually have cereal to eat, or even something as simple and silly as the fact I didn't wet the bed last night. I know, but that IS  a positive thing.   I know I did the same thing with this Christmas season. I noticed the 10 page paper I had due before Christmas break. I noticed how some of the people I usually get to spend Christmas with weren't going to be around to smile at me this year. And even though it doesn't have much to do with Christmas, I noticed the fact that soon I will be off to college and on my own. All of this stuff had me a little downtrodden, and to be honest I was tired of it. That is just it though. I chose the things I was noticing and what kind of a mood they were putting me in.   I should have been focused on the fact I have a wonderful family who loves and supports me in all my adventures. I should focus on how I was going to watch my four year old brother's face light up as he opened his first present from Santa. Above all, I  should focus on celebrating the birth of my savior Jesus Chirst. These a very few of the wonderful things Christmas means to me, and I really should focus on this kind of thing, as well should you. After all, we are the ones who control the amount of magic opened up with the presents on Chirstmas day, and the kind of mood we are in for the rest of year for that matter. I hope you found some time to notice the blessings you were given this Christmas, and all those you continue to do receive throughout the rest of the year and into the next. Merry Chirstmas everyone!

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