Good Evening you all my wonderful friends. I am here in my shop in quietness. Life has been busy and I have loved the life. It has been filled with so many good things that I just can't hardly believe it. Yet, this quietness is so blissful. This busy season we must find times of quietness and restoration. It is a wonderfully busy season.
So full of good things that I can hardly take it.
Yet, a time of peace, quietness and reflection.
So I am going to say just what is on my mind this season. What I am about to say may be controversial yet, I am content how I feel. I Love Christmas!!!
I just can't deny it. There are other perspectives out there that it as a horrible time of the year, so commercialized, so busy and that it is a far cry from the truth, that Jesus may not be pleased with it all.
As I am reflecting about the past Christmas's, my heart just swells with beauty of the love and all that surrounds Christmas. The Carols must be the most cheerful songs on earth. My heart leaps when I hear, "Joy to the World" Yes Jesus, you are my joy, my all everything. "Silent Night, Holy Night" What a night it was when baby Jesus was born. It was such a dark time and oh the beauty of that first Christmas Night. I just can't hardly take it to think of it. "Peace on Earth Good Will to Men!!!" Oh how we need it right now on this earth. We all look at each other and elsewhere and think the problem exists elsewhere. Oh, but the joy there is to find the lack of peace in my own heart and know that Jesus can put it there even when
everything is upside down.
And then, the beautiful greenery that we see at this precious time. I heard it once explained the evergreen tree represents the everlasting love of Jesus, It is so special to look out the window on a stark winter day and see the beauty of the pine and cedar. And Yes, I can't help to bring some into my very own home. Ahhhh, the scent is heavenly.
And the gifts....I think back on the childhood Christmas's I had. The love I felt in those gifts, even small at times. I just can't hardly take it with all the memory of it. Do I remember my mama dear sweating over all the Christmas have to's? Not at all even though she surely must have. As a child, I was joyful, cheerful and full of anticipation. Going to grandpa and grandmas, I am just filled with reverie of it all. Grandma and all her food and then it just wasn't enough and she would cutely waddle back to her laundry room to get more. Did she sweat over it? I don't know. Yet, all I remember is her love.
And mentioning food.... how I love thee peppernuts, turtles, divinity, red cinnamon candy, Grandmas popcorn balls that I don't get to have anymore and oh my, mouth just waters to think of it all. The oranges, nuts and all the good things. So very wonderful. Cranberry Orange Bread who I was taught by Louise Brown to make.
Our children when they were home, what fun I had to make it special for them. They were everything to me and I wanted them to have cheerful Christmas's. Yes, today they still talk about how we would read about Baby Jesus before we would open gifts to keep the real meaning of Christmas. Little Donkey hoofs
went Clip Clop, Clip Clop as he slowly climbed the last hill, still rings in my ears.
Yes, I may be crazy, but I love Christmas. I worship my wonderful Saviour and I choose to keep Christmas alive just as He was and is today.
So I am offering everything on my website 30% off to you as my gift to you. Please accept this gift as it is the first time I have been able to offer this percentage off. And as you burn your candles, think of the preciousness of Jesus and all He has done for us. As we burn our candles this season let it be a reminder to not let that flame go out of our lives that Christ offers us so freely.
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