CHRISTMAS 2019

Selections from my 2012 blog...

When someone asks me, "What do you want for Christmas?" I have brain freeze.  I can't think of one single itty, bitty thing.  I feel like a queen who has everything anyone could ever want and more.  I am so blessed.  Then as the day progresses, a lightbulb goes on: I want a broom, one of those cute ones with the pretty printed handles.  My old one is so curled up it looks like a poodle.  

There's an old saying, "The old broom knows where the dirt is."  Some days I need a new broom and a new attitude.  Today I looked up and saw my ceiling fan draped in so many delicate cobwebs that it looked like a chandelier, only not so shiny.  Next thing I know it was raining dust bunnies as the old broom went to work.  

Most of the time, I am content to sit under the hanging cobwebs and not look up.  We are like that with God.  He wants to show us things to clean up in our lives, but we prefer the cobwebs.  We think we are okay as long as we don't look up to see the dirt in our lives from His perspective.  Rather, we should pray, "Create in me a clean heart, O God." (Psalm 51:10)

My constant prayer for myself and those I love is from "Away in a Manger," 

"Fit us for heaven to live with Thee there."

Hymn in the Holy Nativity

"Gloomy night embraced the place

Where the noble infant lay;

The babe looked up and showed His face,

In spite of darkness it was day!

It was Thy day, sweet, and did rise,

Not from the East, but from thine eyes

Great little one!

Whose all-embracing birth

Lifts earth to heaven,

Stoops heaven to earth."

Crenshaw, 1648