Okay. I am going to admit it. I ran out of thing to post. Who would think that with the vastness of Christmasy things out there that I could possibly run out of things to post during a twelve day blogging celebration? Anyways, I did. I had just this one day to fill up, and not only couldn’t find something I really liked, but also ran out of time to find something. I thought of something one day, but failed to write it down, and forgot it. But as I was trying frantically to think of it again, or come up with something else, I thought of this: I’m working too hard. I’m making this too difficult.

I seem to do that with a lot of things. I get into discussions about the Bible on the HomeschoolAlumni.org forums quite often, and always get rather caught up in them. And it always somewhere in the midst of it, or after the discussion as dies down, that I realize just how deep I had gotten in studying. In my vigorous studies and debates, I had left behind one very special thing. I had forgotten the simplicity. The beauty.

That seems to happen a lot around the Christmas season. We forget why we are celebrating in the first place. We get so caught up in the preparation of food, gifts and making everybody happy, that we loose sight of what is really important.

One of my most favorite things in the whole world is the way Christmas lights look in the dark. To me, there isn’t a whole lot that is more enchanting and satisfying than looking at them, all glowing and beautiful. But I don’t think that I would find as much charm in them if I didn’t have a foundation for the happiness they create in me.

That foundation is my relationship with the One who created me.

As we celebrate the birth of our Savior, and enter into a brand new year, may I challenge you all to take your gaze away from the things of this world that will not last, and set your eyes on the only thing that does…the love of our Lord God. The love that caused Him to sacrifice His only begotten Son for our sakes. The love that we need to strive to remember to spread to all those around us.

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Dec. 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anna93

Hey dearest!
Is it as freezing where you live as it is here in great (eh...cold) Ohio?
To be precise, currently, as I type, it is 1 - yep, the big fat 1 - degree in our county this evening.
:)

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