What Follows Christmas?

Heaps of crumpled paper,
Piles of scrunched up bows.
Gifts long since opened,
Exchanges need be made.

The holiday jubilation hours since has passed.
Left with the mess of my own creation,
Christmas has come and gone at last.

Now what?!

Let it continue!

Don't let the spark go out of the wonder,
The adoration fade from our worship.
Stay near the Living Child of God,
Remembering the angel's message.

Meditate upon what Paul Gerhardt penned (1653):

O Jesus Christ, Thy manger is
My paradise at which my soul reclineth.

For there, O Lord, doth lie the Word
Made flesh for us; herein Thy grace forth shineth.

He whom the sea and wind obey
Doth come to serve the sinner in great meekness.

Thou, God's own Son, with us art one,
Dost join us and our children in our weakness.

Thou Christian heart, who-e'er thou art,
Be of good cheer and let no sorrow move thee!

For God's own Child, in mercy mild,
Joins thee to Him; how greatly God must love thee!

Lord God; Let Christmas reign in my heart and home all year long. Don't let the light go out my Savior came to bring. Keep me in a ceaseless, living nativity -- Jesus birthed in me. Amen.