Its mid week during finals for my big boy at home, my college boy called and shared glowing reports of grades accomplished on final tests, apparently in retrospect to survive final grades……ah the joy of being young and believing there is always tomorrow to fix something.
Our tomorrows can get away from us if we’re not aware of just how precious each day is. It seems so easy in life to put off this or that until a better time, finance, etc, but time is indeed a cutthroat ruler, it never returns wasted revolutions of the clock.
That in mind, this week we’ve purposefully taken the children to see Christmas lights in the new jeep, we’ve purposefully made handmade Christmas cards to mail as a family, (and some storebought ones too), we’re baking like elves and trying to enjoy what moments we can find together. The children leave on Thursday at noon, so today is the dreaded “last supper” and we’ll have our own family meal together tonight before church.
This week we’ve had some up close and personal experience with working with folks and forgiving them for something that is difficult to do. I have experienced this experience as well as tried to keep myself seperate and view it as an outsider looking in…….bottom line, God gives us all grace that is so overpowering that our self centered us is able to do things that we cannot understand when we ask God to help us forgive. I listened last night to a person forgive yet another person involved in this emotionally charged problem….and saw again the beauty of Christ as he took ashed and returned something far more valuable to their lives…..for the price of forgiveness and trust in Him.
This season, in the rambling and exhaustion of the days, take time to feed yourself on God’s promises, take time to let your toes warm up to who you are in Him, and by the way….set down the lists of have to do’s for a moment, and try using the never quite get to list that feed your family’s fun quotient, their love bucket, and for goodness sakes, fill your homes with laughter and love, for our Father is sending his son, our Savior and the remembrance and celebration of what this impending birth means to us, is enough reason to find joy in this season!
God is good!
