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I know I must be missing something.
Where are all these expectations coming from?!!!
Suddenly I think of a video which has recently resurfaced on
YouTube portraying a stunning transformation of a quite attractive yet ‘imperfect’
ordinary young woman into a supermodel phantom.
Watching the editing process unfold is as heartbreaking as revealing… But
before I jump on that 'bashing the Photoshop and beauty industry' bandwagon, I ask
myself if in some sense, we might be doing the same to our Christmas? If, by all our beautiful decorations and all
our beautifully choreographed perfect family portraits, the twinkling LED lights and wobbly lawn decorations inadvertently we've turned ourselves into Christmas Photoshop pros…?
As if Christmas needs to be Photoshoped...
As if what God has done and is doing isn’t
good enough…
As if it is my job to improve on His work....
As if I can
improve on His work…
The absurdity of the thought has the effect of rolling a
huge burden off my sagging shoulder. For I know I am horrible at manufacturing
anything… and, with huge relief I realize that this Christmas season it doesn’t fall under my job description to manufacture
some required happy feelings fitting the joyous celebration… for the Reality - The God Among Us, The God With Us, The God FOR Us reality - is
better, much better than anything I can Photoshop in or Photoshop out.
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