Are You Ready for Some Holiday Games?

Don't you just love a food-covered holiday table that's about as big as a football field? You're juggling several buttered rolls and a plate full of tasty side dishes while you're trying to score some major turkey (you really have to scramble to hit the turkey before all those ravenous relatives leave you stuck with only dark meat). First down and gravy to go.

It's especially great to have lots of relatives over for a holiday dinner (all white/dark meat aside) because you have an excuse to eat in the family room. With some fancy footwork, you can swoop up two pieces of pumpkin pie before heading for the goal: the Lazy Boy. Touchdown!
It's good to have a goal.

We need goals in how we treat each other through the holidays, too. Grace is the perfect target. Colossians 4:6 says, "Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out." (The Message)

It can be easy to bring out the worst in others, to put them down with ungracious speech- especially when they're eating the white meat that you're sure is rightfully yours. But we need to consistently show the grace of Jesus in all we do and in all we say.

1 Peter 3:8 instructs us to "be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble." (The Message) That's the way to guarantee a great holiday- even if Uncle Harold gets to the recliner before you do.

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Rhonda Rhea writes for dozens of Christian publications and speaks at conferences and events across the country. You can find her newest books, "Soup for the Soul-Tastes Just Like Chicken", and "Amusing Grace", at your local Christian bookstore. "Who Put the Cat in the Fridge-Serving Up Hope and Hilarity Family Style", will be available in March. Rhonda's husband, Richie Rhea, is a pastor in Troy, Missouri. You can reach them through her Web site at: www.rhondarhea.net.