I have a Christmas tradition. I don’t know if
everyone else does but I do. Every Christmas season I watch the movie ‘The Best Man Holiday.’ I know it sounds
lame but this has been going on for a while now and became part of me such that
when I skip it I always feel like something is missing.
In 2023, the producers, in their wisdom (or lack thereof)
decided to do a sequel of the movie which they called 'The Final Chapters.' It
was great but it ruined my tradition because now I know that the ending is not
the fairytale I have always believed it to be. I don’t know if that makes sense
but it does to me. I wished I had not seen it.
What is it about this movie that seems to bring
me back every year? This has been the question bugging me this year. One of the main characters –Harper- is an author and though
successful in his craft, the success does not reflect in his relationships. In the sequel, he ends up breaking up with his wife but even in the movie, you can feel that something is off. It hit me then that he reminds me so
much about myself. I ‘hate’ him because he is me. I see so much of myself in him and I hate
it.
Sometimes life throws lessons to us and it is our
prerogative to pick the cues and act accordingly failure to which we will find
ourselves in situations we could have avoided. It’s not always about the
messenger but the message. When something keeps popping up maybe we should stop
and think that probably God has a message for us.
When prophet Samuel was a little boy, God decided to call him but the little lad thought it was Eli the priest so he ran up to
the old man to know what was up. This kept happening until the old man thought
that it probably was God trying to speak to the child and instructed him on how
to respond. I do not know this for sure but I want to believe that God would have
continued calling the little boy until he knew it was God.
Pay attention therefore to things that keep coming
back, you just never know, that might be the thing you have been waiting for.
What is your Christmas tradition?
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