It is Christmas Eve Eve... I am trying to straighten up around here before Christmas. Having a lot of different thoughts lately... I know that God is trying to teach me something about Christmas - Himself, but it is like my flesh or Satan is trying to not let it happen sooo bad. Still kind of up in the air as to when we are going to visit family for Christmas. Cried about it this morning. The feeling of Christmas is so fleeting and not constant. The fear that Christmas will feel like just another day - not special. BUT when Christ was born... Mary was a nobody doing her mundane thing called life, the sheppards were doing their jobs watching the flock, the city of bethlehem continued life as normal...
Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but for so many it is not. I would dare to say that for the majority of the world Christmas is not the most wonderful time of the year, but the worst or most depressing or saddest or loneliest. I would say that it is not the most wonderful time for many because they think something is wrong with them if they don't feel happy or feel like it is the most wonderful time or get that special Christmas feeling. They feel hopeless. I love to watch Christmas movies, but very few of those fairy tale movies ever play out in real life leaving many of us to think we've missed it or that we've had a bad Christmas.
I just finished watching a Pooh Christmas with Ford. Eor really stuck out to me. I never really noticed, but generally Eor is depressed and sad and down. In the movie he said he had never asked Santa for anything because the one thing he wanted was impossible for Santa to give - he wanted to fly. Of course by the end of the "fairy tale" movie he does get to fly BUT how true is this mentality in life today. How true is it of ME! Of course in the movie the faith, the belief, the hope was in Santa. It really stuck out to me how really many of the ideas of Santa are how we should see Jesus and God. God is able to give whatever we ask. Nothing is impossible with God. God is real hope all year long. Why don't we ask HIM? Because we don't believe He can do it - the impossible.
This all made me remember what Ginny had told me last Friday... john 14:14... And yesterday when I was reading in Luke the Christmas story the verse "nothing is impossible with God" just kept jumping out at me.
I am to ask HIM, my Savior my Heavenly Father, for something this Christmas but what I don't know. I must believe that in GOD NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE!!! With Santa and Christmas traditions everything is impossible and fleeting and never the same BUT in CHRIST IMMANUEL ALL things are POSSIBLE, ETERNAL, and ALWAYS THE SAME yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Oh Lord help me know what to ask.
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well it seems to me He already is teaching you stuff!!
Keep looking, He'll keep teaching!
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