Christmas
decorating is happening by bits and pieces in our house.
We put up our tree last Saturday… I still need
to fix the star
that is drooping ever lower.
Today I
put stuff on the mantel.
The rest of
the house is a wreck, but some spots look nice!
My energy
levels and headaches are fluctuating like the string of lights
with the bad connection on the front of the
house.
You just
never know if they’ll be on or off!
I’m changing
up some of my supplements, and I’m not sure what’s going on
with the whole Lyme Disease thing.
But on to better
thoughts…
I love to
decorate and create and design things.
So much so
that it can become something negative in my life.
When God
gives me something Good, self wants to take it, warp it,
and make it into something that detracts from God’s glory.
We see it at
Christmas time all around us.
Something
Good.
Something to
Celebrate.
God, come to earth as a human baby!
What better
thing to rejoice about?
But I fall
for the temptation, take something Good,
and turn it into something to serve
myself,
to stress over, to keep up with the Joneses
about.
I take the
glory God should be getting at
Christmas and give it to myself.
I think there’s a word for that.
Idolatry comes to mind.
Here’s one
thing I did to keep the truth of Christmas visible this year.
I made a
rustic cross and manger (it’s a great benefit that I like a rustic style.
It suits my carpentry skills much better! This was almost disaster. Wink.)
and used
Multiflora Rose canes to make a crown.
The verse I
painted on a large piece of black foam board purchased at $Tree.
Jesus, God’s
Son left heaven’s magnificence to be born in a barn.
As a human no less.
And then,
after living through the trials of being a human on this earth,
there is death.
Horrific death.
But it is
death so that all mankind has
the ability to LIVE.
It is offered to the whole word!
Is this not an AMAZING LOVE?!
May we all really LIVE
through HIM this Christmas.
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