I know I said I wasn’t going to decorate and I wasn’t going to put up a tree. Well, that was the darkness talking… and I’m living in the light. Praise the Lord! And I know a bunch of you are breathing a sigh of relief.
I have a beautiful pre-lit tree that my friends gave me last year but I decided I didn’t want a huge tree. So I went to Target and bought a very small, and Charlie-Brownesque tree. And somehow it seems perfect this year. It fits in the living room without moving furniture, and it holds just the right amount of ornaments.
I must tell you that I have enough ornaments to decorate a large tree and possibly another medium size tree. You know me, I don’t do anything half way, and I’ve always gotten us ornaments from trips we’ve taken, even if it’s a weekend getaway to Indy to see a friend (got one from the zoo this year). This year, I strategically picked the ornaments on the tree. I picked out all the Mother/Daughter ornaments and discovered while pulling Phyllis’s ornament with her name on it (the ball kind from Frankenmuth), that I don’t have one of those and I think I will be ordering myself one (a red one OF COURSE!). I picked out (and hung first) the ornament from the year that she was diagnosed with JRA of a snowman with a little mouse doctor (Wednesday it is 15 years since she’s been diagnosed, God is good! She is in remission, He is the ultimate healer). And a few Charlie Brown ornaments, and the Nine Ladies Dancing Precious Moments ornament (the only PM I put up this year).
I hope that your Christmas is perfectly imperfect, just like you. And may you find Jesus in your imperfection.
God loves you. And so do I.
Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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