BLOGWORDS – Monday 10 April 2023– BOOK LAUNCH EVENT – GUEST POST – KRISTENA MEARS
Please give a great welcome to Kristena Mears, author and friend.
I don’t know about you, but at our house, Christmas time is always more chaotic than other times of the year. What is it about that season that increases the frustration and stress levels?
This last year, however, went way beyond the normal strain and tension of shopping, cooking and getting things planned and done on time. It was disastrous. And it all started just before Thanksgiving.
I was told at the beginning of the year that I needed to have back surgery. I had three discs that had collapsed and needed repair. But you know insurance. No matter what the doctor said, they had to try everything else first. So, by the time the physical therapy, nerve blocks, and pain management were all tried and failed, it was just before the holidays that I was scheduled for surgery.
The surgery itself went well, but the anesthesia and I didn’t get along. As I started to come around, I went into convulsions and had a seizure, then symptoms of a stroke. While most people wake up within thirty minutes, I took several hours. When I did finally recover enough to leave the recovery room, and be sent to a hospital room, I had amnesia. I didn’t know where I was, or why I was there. I couldn’t answer questions about what day or year it was. The amnesia only lasted a couple of days, but more time in the hospital was added.
This holiday season was becoming a disaster. I had lost Christmas.
Holiday plans were made around me. Everyone pitched in, and each detail was covered. I didn’t have to worry about anything — but I did.
We had plans to go to my daughter’s on Christmas day. I played the part of an excited mom well, but truthfully, I just wanted to stay home. Christmas crept closer and closer. I had no decorations up and I didn’t care. My hubby came home with a small, table sized tree, set it up, and decorated it, on Christmas eve. Insisting we keep the traditions we had started our first Christmas together: We watched Christmas cartoons, read The Night Before Christmas and finished with the Christmas story from Luke 2.
What a powerful story.
The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 12:4
Jesus entered our living room. The power of the living God seeped into my mind, through the pain, and chased away a deep depression that I wasn’t aware had taken residence. His word had cut through the darkness and allowed the light to ignite the power of love — His love — to heal me.
The disaster of that Christmas was that I had let my eyes stray from Him, to me and my pain. But, as He did on the first Christmas — Jesus came.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
John 3:17
He didn’t come to place blame for losing sight of Him, but to save me once again.
— and to save Christmas that year.
Kristena Mears is an award-winning author, speaker, and blogger.
She loves history, art, travel, and research. Out of these, flow her vivid imagination and inspiring stories.
Her self-published book, Under Penalty of Death, has been picked up by the traditional publisher, Elk Lake Publishing LLC., and is in the process of being republished. The reprint is scheduled to come out in mid-2023.
When Kristena isn’t busy writing or working her full-time job, you’ll probably find her researching history, ancient culture or science. She spends every extra hour with her husband and best friend, Mark, takes frequent trips to the zoo with her friends, and enjoys cooking, dabbling in photography and her tropical fish.
Kristena lives in the Cincinnati, OH area. Her husband, Rev. Mark Mears, is a retired Minister with the Christian & Missionary Alliance. They have three grown children and have been married for 41 years.
If you are interested in book updated and free short stories, please check out Kristena’s website at kristenamears.com
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