Expectations
(Again, am finally getting around to posting what has been a draft in my draft files for quite some time!) Just admit it: Life is about expectations. We all have them, whether they are good or bad. We have expectations of ourselves and expectations of others. There are certain expectations of events and businesses. Our employers have expectations of us, their employees. The list could go on. Some expectations we don’t even realize we have. That is, until they aren’t met. When this happens, something else happens. And sometimes, that something else is not always a good thing. (In other words, we sin because of it.) I was rudely reminded of this recently when I discovered that plans I had for some Christmas projects were not working out like I was expecting them to. Add to that the general expectation of what “Celebrating Christmas” is supposed to look, feel, sound, and even taste like, and Christmas this year just hasn’t been ...