December 26, 2019

Selection from 2014...

Christmas was brimful of blessings.  The home invasion of kids and grandkids was a happy cacophony of love on Christmas morning.  We were more crowded than a stable full of animals, the Holy Family, and shepherds.

There has never been a better Christmas or as exhausting of one.  Each year I begin pulling out presents hidden in my closet and sorting them for grandchildren.  I'm sure I age as I come out of my room barely able to move, not nearly as spry as I had gone in.  I don't know how Santa stays so ageless.

The good thing is that it motivates me to clean out my closet.  I have too much clutter.  Out with the old and in with the new as we approach the changing of the year.  In just a bit though; not yet.  I'm still recuperating from having too much Christmas fun.

Mary and Joseph learned to travel lightly with a carpenter's have-hammer-will-travel, some swaddling clothes, and a little gold, frankincense and myrrh, just enough to pack on a donkey.

"The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying, 

'Arise and take the Child and His mother, and flee to Egypt..."

Matthew 2:13

I'll try to travel and little more lightly this year, but it took me a lifetime to accumulate and will take the rest of my life to declutter.  I wish Santa would fill his sack with our old stuff when he brings new presents, at least take out all the Christmas trash when he leaves.

The Magnificat

"His mercy is upon generation after generation...

He has filled the hungry with good things;

And sent away the rich empty-handed.

Luke 1:50, 53