Christmas is so great it takes 12 days to celebrate it. Parties and concerts and children's plays are all wonderful and appropriate. Don't forget to pray and recollect and give thanks.
Recollection is a term of the spiritual life. It means that we keep a conscious awareness of the love of God and our presence before him. If we practice the spirit of recollection we will grow in grace and avoid the pitfalls of sin.
Dissipation is the opposite of recollection. Dissipation can happen through the busy-ness and trials of life, through wilful distraction, and mostly through sin. The Christian should strive to practice the spirit of recollection and fight against the spirit of dissipation
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