I knew this Christmas would be different, I knew my kids would enjoy it, they always do. You know the excitement you see on a child's face and the anticipation of presents and playing and enjoying them with their siblings there's just nothing like it. Well but I didn't know that God was going to allow me to have a very special Christmas and in this way enrich my understanding of what Christmas really is.
I'm going to start with our house. We were so busy this year I thought it was never going to get decorated, with the cheer float we built here for a week and a half and the parade, then we had Birthdays and Basketball games. Anyways next year I will be the crazy person decorating after halloween and I will enjoy my house the entire month of December, but this year was different.
Finally about two weeks before Christmas I got the playroom/sunroom where we put up our tree where I thought it looked "Christmasy". We have this huge bucket of toys in the playroom and I couldn't find anything to do with them they didn't match or fit anywhere and thus ruined the appearance of my Christmas room. When finally it hit me, I could stuff the basket with Christmas animals,which I had a huge rubber maid tote of and I was wondering where I could put them. So I called the kids in to help, "run all over the house and bring me whatever Christmas animals you have, and we will stuff them in this basket." They too were excited and went running Christopher brought me his "1998 Christmas bear" his daddy gave him the year he was born, Grace brought out penguins and her snow bears and reindeer webkinz in it's cute Santa suit, then Joey my four year old brings a big huge easter bunny. Okay first of all the easter bunny doesn't fit in my basket and second this is Christmas, not Easter!! Well he ran his huge easter bunny back to his room and then returned with a smaller pale yellow easter bunny, He placed it in the basket, and then it hit me The gift God gave us at Christmas 2000 plus yrs. ago was the promise for Easter. Without Easter there would be no Christmas and without Christmas there would be no Easter. Now most people comprehend that God sent his son to live and die for our sins. But this was just a revelation to me that "Easter was our Christmas present from God. And Christmas is our Easter present from God because without Christmas there would be no Easter. "Isn't that awesome!!!" and God showed me this through a little child trying to make room for his Easter bunny in a Christmas basket.
This vs may or may not be appropriate here but I like it.
Mark 10:14-16
"Let the Children come unto me. For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."
Then He took them into his arms , placed his hands on thier heads and blessed them.
Well my beautiful children are now up and going, but I thank God for what he has revealed to me this Christmas and I will have to share more later.
"Let the Children come unto me. For the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."
Then He took them into his arms , placed his hands on thier heads and blessed them.
Well my beautiful children are now up and going, but I thank God for what he has revealed to me this Christmas and I will have to share more later.
"Merry Christmas!!"
in your heart all year long.
in your heart all year long.
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