It is such a busy time of the year. With meetings to plan the parties, parties that we planned by meetings and follow up meetings to evaluate the meetings that planned the parties and meetings to follow up the parties that were planned by too many meetings. Oh and cookie swaps, and birthdays, and shopping for both. Oh and then there's Christmas. What about meetings for Christmas and shopping for Christmas and cookies for Christmas. Oh wait what about Christmas Eve we forgot shopping for that and meetings about the shopping and cookies for the meetings and cookies for Christmas Eve.
My oh my I am tired from even typing it all. But the truth is......that is how our lives seem to feel this time of year. I find myself just wishing for January. Wishing for a time of the year that is hopefully filled with lots of snow to make the city STOP MOVING. One of my favorite things ever....is when you step outside after a big snow. You step out of your warm house into complete silence. Nothing can be heard except the occasional tree branch falling. It is as if God has hit the pause button on the Earth. Peace on Earth. I love it!
Over a week away from Christmas and today my prayer is that God would hit the pause button. Maybe not in the form of snow, but in someway cause rest and peace to fall upon our lives. Busyness makes you miss the little things and causes you to wake up 20 years from now and wonder where the time went. So take a moment and take a deep breath. Breathe in the sites of your children admiring a twinkling tree, an advent candle that reminds us of the love of Christ, a bell ringer who loves giving their time, cookies that are just right, hot cocoa in a Christmas mug, a fire that you get to snuggle up by. Don't miss the little things that seem to fly by in busy times.
I pray that during this season of Hope you will find rest in the loving arms of God who gave so much for us to know Him.
Merry Christmas!
~LL
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