Mingling in the trash

I know it's not still Christmas as a matter of a fact it is farther away now than it ever will be for 2008. My sweet 7 yr. old daughter said today talking to her 4 yr old brother, " Joey Christmas is 11 mos and 1/2 a year away. Well she almost got it right I guess to her it's just a long time away.
So you may ask what do trash and Christmas have in common? Well I'd like to say I saw this without actually digging through the trashcan on Christmas day, but I can't.
I guess it just can't be Christmas without mingling with the trash. This is how it always starts. We have three kids nine,seven and four, they sort the presents out from under the tree. "Here's yours papaw." "Mimi this ones for you." "Mama you've got something." Then they sort out all of their presents and can't wait to open them. I try so hard to keep all their presents sorted and unopened until I can get alone with each of them explore the directions, take off every little tie and dispose of only the box. But inevitably every year at least one very important piece will make it to the garbage can with out my "permission" . And here I go diving into the big green garbage can mingling with the trash to try to find that one piece that the entire toy will not work without.
This year as I dug through the trash, I laughed and mummered "It can't be Christmas without mingling with the trash"I paused a second, as if to hear myself say it again and then I realized That's right there would be No Christmas if God his self had not chosen to come and mingle with the trash. Our holy God came down heaven sent in holy form to be placed on this sinful, stingy stinking oder smelling gross compared to heaven earth to mingle with the trash. I know thats a different twist on Christmas but it's true and he mingled with the trash for 33 yrs. But not once complained, or screamed I don't belong here. And he hung on a cross you know the story so God would accept us we would be purified and God would see us not as the trash we are but as the clean purified one washed in the blood of his son. He sent down to mingle with the trash on Christmas day over 2000 yrs ago.
Today my Sunday school class went down town Memphis to witness to the homeless people of Memphis. We took them food drinks and some clothes, but most of all we offered them Jesus Christ. Some of them listened and some were already Christians, some just wanted the food.
now some would say we were mingling in the "trash"I personally would never call someone else trash because that is not nice and we should not judge, but leaving our big huge church on Appling Rd. Going and sitting on planks propped up by trusty orange Homer Buckets from Home Depot. You realize Jesus shed blood for them just as he did for me and you. And thank the good Lord I have been purified and washed in the blood of Jesus, so it is my job to mingle in the trash not only at Christmas time but all year round. and let others know why God came on Christmas morning 2000+ yrs. ago to a dirty sinful world so one day I and they too can live a clean and perfect life.

For God says
"What you have done to the least of these you have done also for me"

Keep working for God, God came to mingle in the trash because he loved you,we should mingle becuase we love him.
Keep mingling in the "trash"
Merry Christmas in your heart all year long!!!