(So last day of the year. Let's make it good, Desiree.)
I don't know about you, but after Christmas I want the holidays to end immediately. Turn the Christmas music off, put the tree away, take the wreath down. Our poor children are forced to immediately turn off the magical Christmas haze mere hours after the last gift has been opened.
I look forward to it. Love Christmas, but my body has been itching to get it packed up since the morning of 12/26. We celebrate Jesus everyday in this house, so quit your crying and help me sweep up the fake tree "frays" (can't call them leaves).
OK, I don't really say that. In reality, I'm trying to clear the living room of holiday clutter while Clint is making endless sweet treats before the healthy resolutions of New Year's kick in, Carter is on a rotation of playing with a new toy, dropping it, and picking up another every two minutes, and Cade doesn't want to play with any of his new toys but only to chew on everything else that's a choking hazard (cords, paper, tree "frays"). So, feel sorry for me.
As I was taking down our Christmas cards, I took a moment to sit down and read through them again. The nice thing about greeting cards of any kind is that they say the most heart-warming things inside that we are so ill-equipped and/or cowardly to say on the outside to our friends and family. One says this:
(On the front)
"Good people will be remembered as a blessing... Proverbs 10:7"
(On the inside)
"In this hurry that has become such a part of our lives, it's important to stop and remember the special blessings we have--and having family like you is one of the best of all!"
(Just for You! from American Greetings)
Who says that? How would you respond? "Thanks." In a world where we express our elatement by "liking" a photo or commenting on someone's status with a :) or a "RT," we rarely encounter rich, deep words of compassion, encouragement, and admiration anymore. We also take for granted the access we have in the Bible, the ultimate love story between God and His people, which is chock full of beautiful words of true heart in loving God and others. With that, I've come to a resolution for New Year's that most people don't have on their lists and that is to shower the people around me with words not comprised of superficiality and fluff but of clear purpose, loving appropriateness, and the color of life.
We'll see how it goes. This might cause me to sound like a DaySpring greeting card, but so what?
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver." Proverbs 25:11 ESV
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