The day after Christmas is a special time…a reflective time for me. This year the snow outside makes it easier to contemplate the joy that was mine this year. It was an unusual year. One that saw me celebrating Christmas at home while family was elsewhere. A taste of what it is like to be without family, yet such a blessed time.
This year has brought many blessings, many unexpected gifts of experience. Chances to see and know what matters to me, when once upon a times fairy tale hopes actually came true. The special joy of having the blessings of “I wish I coulds” come true took an unexpected turn.
It seemed when the new life was here, the old one’s polish began to show, and my heart reflected that perhaps the dreams we dreamed were not of the solid life I wished to have…and I was particularly moved that God gave me the choice to choose which walk I would continue to walk….a loving Father who said “as you please” to a wistful child…
and so in the gentlest and kindest of ways God taught me the lesson of living. Living where I am at each moment, to acknowledge and affirm His positioning of my life where it is for the purpose He pleases.
What a joyful Christmas gift.
