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In Search of the Perfect Gift
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It’s Christmas time. Time to buy gifts for those I love. So I’ve been thinking about gifts and gift-giving. I am thinking about those on my list and wishing to find the perfect gift for them.
As I think back over my years, a few “perfect” gifts stand out in my mind. I remember the year my parents gave me a birthstone ring shaped like a heart with the word love on it.
I think of one year when Eddie and I were living in Mississippi. There was a big snow and ice was on the roads, but I so wanted to go home for Christmas. That classic old song Home for Christmas haunted me. “I’ll be home for Christmas, you can count on me…” We drove from Mississippi back to north Alabama on a sheet of ice, but I had to be home! Now that was a gift of love from my husband. Needless to say, we were much younger then and maybe not as wise, but I got home for Christmas!
I remember the year my husband hid a beautiful ring in a pair of gloves. I was so discouraged over getting a pair of gloves and trying not to show it. I put the gloves aside for I had gotten more than one pair that year. Eddie kept insisting I try them on. In truth, I didn’t want to take the tags off to try them on because I was planning on taking them back asap. When I finally consented and place my hands in the gloves, there was my ring inside the ring finger of the gloves.
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My Grown-Up Christmas List
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As I awakened this morning, I found myself thinking of a Christmas song entitled “My Grown-Up Christmas List”. It is a beautiful song full of meaning. I began to think about what my list would look like this year. I am going to share a very personal “Grown-Up Christmas List”.
As I imagine myself opening gifts on Christmas morning – untying the bows, ripping off the paper as one by one, these are the gifts I would like to open this year:
1. Words of kindness, love, care, encouragement, counsel,empathy, and hope. As I evaluate 2008, words were very important. It was a year filled with words. Words of encouragement. Words of empathy. Words of counsel. Words of counsel. Words of hate. Words of gossip. Words of destruction. Faithful words. Unfaithful words. Words intended to build up and words intended to tear down. Interestingly, the year led me to discover my own words. I began to write, and I found fulfillment in the expression of my heart. And certainly words are often meaningless unless they are accompanied by…
2. Actions which say “I care about you and my actions back up my words with kindness, love, care, encouragement, counsel, empathy, and hope.”
3. Time. The gift of time spent with me.
4. Relationship. I discovered in 2008 that relationships are a beautiful treasure.
5. Value. I would unwrap the gift that says “I value who you are as a person.”
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Revisiting Christmas
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Mary, just a young girl, must have been afraid.
Miles from home
Away from mom and dad
Birthing a child
In front a man she had not been intimate with yet
Joseph, himself a young man,
In all likelihood his first time to help birth a child
Wondering how to take care of this woman and this child
The responsibility of raising the child of God
What was it like to hold this baby?
Scary, overwhelming, confusing
The emotions of being chosen as a part of this purpose of God-
Not all pleasant emotions
Beginning life together in a backwards sort of way
Childbirth first
Relationships later
Angels pronouncing “Peace on Earth”
But where was that peace?
It was not to be found yet
There was not complete peace in that stable
If we are real about what was happening…
Two young people probably more terrified than peaceful
Wondering if God was going to use them to birth His child
Couldn’t He have given them a room in the inn?
Being introduced to God
In skin
After 400 years of prophetic silence
Perhaps He had seemed a distant God before
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