
Being home is so relaxing. There is nothing I like better. Snuggling around a good book under fuzzy blankets with eight other pairs of toes touching yours. Sticky fingers touch the window for the fourth time today. I start to huff and puff, but then consider how short a time it will be before those hands are grown men and women.
A poem I wrote ...
Sticky fingers, pudgy nose, batter lingers on the clothes. Icing in bowl, tiny tots glow, coals in the fire, boughs going higher. Gather around, and listen close, for in 'Christmas Carol', there might be a ghost! Strings and ribbons, bling and gibbons. The birth of Christ will come yon night.
As we make ginger bread houses and cookies, and the kitchen cabinet piles quickly with dishes, I consider how blessed I am to have a family to make a mess. How blessed to be one with my family. In joyful unity. I love the holidays because it brings even more family together. I could never imagine life without my siblings. Sometimes I complain about how much I pick up, but that is my job! I am a home keeper, my parent's helper, I am a woman who has a mission in the home.
It shows you how much family can mean. My family, not just mom and dad and the seven siblings, but grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins; all having a good time together.
We have lacked for nothing, just as God promised.
" Matthew 6:25
For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to to his life?"
Christmas isn't about how many presents are under the tree, it's about the enormous gift God gave us. Giving us his son! We were sinners doomed to die! We deserved death; but God chose to preserve us. That is the greatest gift one could receive.
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10 "
Have a Merry Christmas everyone! I won't be on the blog until after new years.
Bria Crawford