Christmas Ode to Readers

May your stocking be filled with warm, cozy feet and may your cup of cocoa be warm. May all that you unwrap be loved for the thought and may your best gifts be unbought, but wrapped in a spirit of live, joy and peace and complete with smile and warm hugs. And may you not ever forget you have God with you wherever you go! Merry Christmas, beautiful creation of God! Much happiness be to you and your family, even if it is just little like mine. God bless us everyone!!

Poem of Journeys

Life is not but a journey of growth.

The lessons they shape as onward we go

Past the darkness of valley, the triumph of peaks

And all through it, God’s presence we take

Though we may not feel it, we may feel on our own

And think that our heartbreak is borne all alone.

We must then dig much deeper still

Past the pain and emotions, past our great strength of will

And drop our defence and bend on our knees

And give God our broken and His love receive.

So cheer for your journey now and into the fog

Keep your head to the wind and your focus on God.

Passing People

People come and go in life. Some stay longer than others and some stay deeper than others. It is rare now to have someone stay forever, at least in my life. Family and a few best friends is all for me. Everyone else seems to just be temporal, whether I like it or not. And of the whole of the world, any of it, it only exists before you because God wishes it. He made everything and He designs and plans everything and that is that. We have little say about those facts. What we can control is how we are with those who cross our paths for however long that might be. And if we plant a seed or water a seed of Jesus in those people, we will have succeeded in God’s eyes. Do not take for granted you will have another chance to show someone God’s love. Love now whenever you can wherever you have a chance to. 

The Light of Christmas

Tonight we drove around and looked at the lights, stopped for pizza downtown and saw more lights. It was beautiful, serene (pretty hard to come by), calm, easy and hopeful. There may be evil pervading most areas but here right now there is a pervading calm and happiness. Because of light? Because one Light came to earth and shared Himself with the world. There is light and hope from Him still, harder to see sometimes, but right now as the dark grows darker, what light we have from Him still shines brighter. We have His light in us and it still offers hope and peace and joy and nothing can change that ever. That is truly beautiful and that is why we celebrate Christmas with Light. 🙂