Rediscovering Wonder in a Rushed Season
A slow Christmas helps you rediscover the wonder rushing steals. God meets you in stillness, not stress. Choose quiet moments, savor simple joys, and let peace lead the season
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.
Dallas Willard
TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
Daily Vitamin: Make room for wonder.
Inspirational Story: Stillness invites God into your season.
Fruit of the Spirit: Matthew 1:23
DAILY VITAMIN
Make room for wonder.
Stillness isn’t empty; it’s full of God’s voice, God’s peace, and God’s presence. A slow Christmas lets your soul breathe again.
Pray for the awareness to notice God in the small things.
Light a candle tonight and sit in silence for two minutes.
Read Luke 2 slowly and thank God for each detail.
INSPIRATIONAL STORY
Rediscovering Wonder in a Rushed Season
It’s mid-December, and Christmas, the season that’s supposed to feel peaceful, already feels like a race you never signed up for.
You hurry from store to store.
Scroll through gift ideas.
Rush through parties, errands, and obligations.
And somewhere in the middle of all that movement, something gets lost.
Wonder.
The quiet magic.
The sacred stillness.
The sense of awe that Christmas once brought when you were younger.
Can we have a slow Christmas this year?
That’s a question a daughter asked her mom, stopping her cold.
A slow Christmas.
Not a decorated one.
Not a perfect one.
Not a productive one.
A slow one.
And it’s also an invitation for you to do something different this year:
Light candles instead of rushing through dinner.
Read a few verses from Luke instead of watching another Christmas movie.
Walk through your neighborhood to look at lights instead of sprinting through a list of tasks.
Winning Christmas begins by slowing your pace, not increasing your productivity.
So what if, this year, you permitted yourself to slow down?
Not to fall behind.
Not to disappoint anyone.
But to rediscover the awe that rushing always steals.
Because the first Christmas wasn’t hurried.
A quiet stable.
A silent night.
A simple manger.
And in that stillness… God showed up.
Maybe He still does.
Stillness isn’t empty. It’s full of God.
“Be still, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)
So slow down.
Breathe deeply.
Notice the small miracles around you.
The twinkle of lights.
The warmth of your home.
The laughter at your table.
The presence of the people you love.
The presence of the God who loves you.
Christmas wonder isn’t found in motion. It’s found in moments.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel.” (Matthew 1:23)
Devotion: Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of hope. His arrival proves that God keeps every promise.
Action: Reflect on how the birth of Jesus fulfilled prophecy.
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