about Christmas...just threw out the gift wrap; cleaned up the house;
laughed again at the silly things people said and did; wept a little
at the touching moments...
each year the kids name "the best gift of Christmas" and this year it's
a plaque our third born gave her Dad and me that says
"the best things in life are not things".
she gave it to us with a card thanking us for teaching her and her siblings
that life lesson so well...for living it in front of them...
of course, that wasn't Mark and me; that was the Lord's doing.
thank You, Lord Jesus for emptying Yourself of what was rightfully Yours.
thank You for becoming one of us...for taking on human flesh and frailty.
thank You, Father, for sending Your Son to a world that was not only
not crying out to You for help...we were running from You in rebellion.
thank You for the peace we have in You, Jesus.
may we be ever mindful! ♥