Our grandson Blake spent Friday night with us. It was his
plan to help decorate our Christmas tree and the house. He was a great help! I
told him we’d have to be careful with the ornaments because some of them were
very old and fragile. He’d gingerly remove
one from the box and ask me if it was one of those special ornaments. Those go
up high so that little sister and brother fingers can’t reach them! By the time
Popaw had returned from the store with more Christmas lights, 500 to be exact,
Blake was beside himself with excitement. We keep our ornaments and other
decorations in plastic tubs and he could not rest until the tubs were empty. He
even wanted to put the forlorn dozen antique Santas on the tree! I finally
convinced him to put those back in the tub.
When Blake’s mom came over to look at everything, she was
holding Stella, who immediately started saying “ooooh” and “wow”! She was ecstatic! Caleb was excited too
because he loves the musical bears and snowmen we have around the house. He’d
push the button, hear the song start up and exclaim, “It’s working!” Nothing is more wonderful than sharing
Christmas memories and traditions with grandchildren!
There's no pretense with grandchildren. They just love tell
you their innermost feelings, they believe you completely and they abandon
themselves for the joy of your presence! It’s so sad that when kids grow up
they take on the grown up world of suspicion and cynicism. Children don’t look for hidden motives or
intentions. They just love you and believe you and have a blast with you!
Maybe you’re a cynic. You scoff at heartfelt sentiments. You
laugh at tender-hearted conversations. You’ve looked under Santa’s beard and
you know the truth. Tender memories are for kids. A cynic’s outlook is scornful
and habitually negative. Maybe you’ve become a realist. You know things were
great as a kid, with all the mystery and wonder of the holidays, but really,
there’s no need for that anymore. You’re very practical and stoic. Perhaps you’ve
let yourself become suspicious. You’ve become one who doubts others’ motivation
and thinking. You think something fishy is going on and everything around you,
everyone around you, has become questionable, unreliable and shady. After all
you just can’t trust people anymore.
Oh beloved, it’s Christmas! Time to be a child again! It’s
time to leave behind fleshly thinking! It’s time to take pleasure again in the
delicate, fragile and heartfelt moments of the Season! Be a kid! Have a blast!
Enjoy the past, relish today and let yourself have bright hopes for tomorrow!
It will be okay because the Lord Himself is with you! Tell Him your innermost
feelings for He is waiting to hear and always listens! Believe Him completely
for He is Faithful and True! Abandon
yourself to Him for He is Ever Present and Always Reliable!
He’s speaking to your heart this morning. He says to you “I
love you! I was born to give you life and give it to you lavishly, abundantly,
without reservation and with no hidden motives. You are Mine and I am yours. I
AM the gift of your wildest dreams, I AM the answer to your deepest problems, I
AM your Abba Father, so you can relax and be My child! It’s Christmas! Won’t
you let Me take you into my heart and arms and show you what Christmas is all
about? I AM the Reason for the Season and I AM able to make you feel with your
heart, trust with your mind and let yourself go for the joy of the moment!
Trust Me for I AM Faithful and True! Enjoy the Season for I AM able to make all
things work out for you. Together you and I can have the Best Christmas Ever!
Why? Because I love you and I’m for you and you can see that all the way from
the Manger to the Resurrection. What else could you possibly need?
Galatians 4:6 And
because we are His children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our
hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”
Psalm 138:8 The LORD
will work out His plans for my life— for Your faithful love, O LORD, endures
forever. Don’t abandon me, for You made me.
I Timothy 6:17b “…trust in the living God,
who giveth us richly all things to enjoy (KJV)
Ephesians 3:6 And this is God’s plan: Both Gentiles and Jews
who believe the Good News share equally in the riches inherited by God’s
children. Both are part of the same body, and both enjoy the promise of
blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus.
Psalm 31:19 How great
is the goodness You have stored up for those who fear You. You lavish it on
those who come to You for protection, blessing them before the watching world.
Matthew 18:3 And said, Truly I say to you,
unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children
[trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven
[at all]. (AMP)
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