by Wendy Lawton
If you happened to send an email to one of our agents, you received an out-of-office message. And we’re not even traveling to a conference or to a publisher. We are taking our annual two week Christmas break.
Remember your college days when you went home for your Christmas break? We were on the semester system and Christmas came just before papers were due and finals would take place. Some break!
An agent’s hiatus is somewhat the same. Though we don’t keep normal office hours, we use the time as a catch up time and a refocus/planning time. I still have quite a bit of work that didn’t get done before we closed. Here’s what I have left to do:
- Two contracts
- Several client submissions that need a quick turnaround
- Read a client’s edited manuscript (Okay, this is not really work. I just couldn’t wait till the published book to read this one.)
- Write this blog
- Work on my goals for the coming year
- As always, work on my office systems
But the real reason we take this break is to have time with family and friends, to seek refreshment and rest, to plan for the coming year, and to find time to experience the wonder of the incarnation– the miracle that changed our future forever.
Do you intentionally break for Christmas? What will you be doing over the holidays?
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With eighteen dogs, the days go ’round
and I’m at their beck and call
to walk and feed and heed the sound
they make, wanting to play ball.
You might think there is a sameness
and a growing gray ennui
but there is a joy that’s nameless
and growing like a tree
whose roots reach back to Jesus
and the animals gathered for His birth
with an innocence far from specious,
pure witness to His worth.
Harry Belafonte knew of the creatures’ warm-love glow;
if you want to hear the song, click on the link below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa10RxlrK3A
Merry Christmas, Wendy and everyone at Books and Such!
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To answer your questions, yes, we also have a two-week Christmas break/summer holiday planned. Yes, I’m in New Zealand, and the sun is shining.
A well-deserved break for all of you, I’m sure. Jesus took a break from heaven and came to earth for our sakes. Let us all take a break from our earth-bound daily routines to devote ourselves to honoring him. Christmas blessings to all,
Being in the camping ministry, we have groups here at the camp from the day after Christmas until New Years … but we are taking a day tomorrow to visit my mom and will take our Christmas dinner down to my 100-year-old Grandpa’s house to celebrate the Lord’s birth together. I also intend to read some Christmas novellas, yay!
I try hard to take a break through Christmas and New Years. My girls are out of school, and I want to be free to soak every moment in with them. But it does seem like several events throughout the season keep us busy and working toward one thing after another. We took time to go visit my dad and uncle yesterday, and I cherished that time. The way their faces lit up when we walked into the meeting place will stay in my heart forever. I know my face matched theirs, because I rushed into their arms. And we’ll be going to Disney after the holiday, and I’m looking forward to being trapped in a vehicle from Texas to Florida for hours with my people. Merry Christmas, Wendy and everyone!
Family and church activities. With three birth children and three adopted kids we have two separate families, separated by time and age. Someone is always dropping by, calling, emailing or instant messaging … isn’t it wonderful?! And yes … writing. Visiting the daily activities of my characters is often the only time-off or break I get. There will be a mystery or growing-up event that is solved by book-friend and reader in each story. As a psychologist, it’s all great fun, a real vacation!
Have a wonderful and well-deserved break.
For me, I am having my first every experience as a seasonal worker in a retail clothing store, and it has been crazy. Nevertheless, I had all my decorations up, and was able to continue, maybe not as I originally planned my Facebook Christmas event I called, RECLAIMING CHRISTMAS ONE HEART AT A TIME. It was very special to me.
I also went to to Christmas local theater productions this year with my husband. We thoroughly enjoyed both.
I worked in the store until 8:30 PM Christmas Eve, and the on Christmas made a great buffet for my son and his new bride. They were married September 15th. Now back at work since 7 am, and still smiling!
I’m looking forward to 2019!
Have a wonderful New Years!