Christmas Eve Morning

Whew! Here we sit on Christmas Eve morning.  

The season may or may not have rushed you this year.  For us it has been full of hectic moments.  Moments that do sometimes rob me of joy, but I can say it has not been a season that has robbed me.  Those have happened in the past. 

I didn't want yet another year of praying for January to come.  

A year where all the hustle and bustle begs for a long winters nap.

This year making advent a priority has helped.  It hasn't been perfect. I hasn't been nightly. 

But it has been good.  

Some days we had to do 2, because the night before was full of hectic moments. 

Last night we finished all of them except ONE.  

The last one.

This One waits for today. 

This One waits to tell about the light of the world that came so many years ago to break into the darkness and change humanity.

One ornament, one story, about One Savior.

Here are the ornaments that I haven't written about that we have done through out this season...

Little slave girl and Naaman 2 Kings 5
Naaman had leprosy thus the body parts in an ornament :) The kids will NEVER forget this story.

The Rescuer will come:
prophecies from Isaiah 9,11,40,53,55,60

Daniel and the lions' den
Daniel 6

Jonah and the Big Fish
Jonah 1-4; Hebrews 1:1-2

God's People return from being slaves.
Nehemiah 8-10, Malachi 1,3, &4
Ezra 7
Ezra read the book of rules and it worked like a mirror,
showing them what they were like.

He's Here!!
The Nativity
Luke 1-2

I love that this is not the last one.  I love that the Nativity is just a piece of a big picture...and this little precious baby had a huge job in front of him.  The little baby wrapped in swaddling clothes had to do a  job that only a mighty God could do.....Save the world.

Though my blogging hasn't been as regular as I wish, our moments together have.  My heart takes a deep sigh when each night (Or every other night :-) when we sit down together and here of real moments throughout history that God laid out to point us to Him.  From the creation of time to now and forward He is orchestration all things to work together to point humanity to Himself. 

This last picture is one of my favorites. 

All 4 candles are lit and we are hearing about the birth of Jesus.

Jesus Storybook-

Everything was ready. The moment God had been waiting for was here at last! God was coming to help his people, just as he had promised in the beginning. But how would he come? What would he be like? What would he do?

Mountains would have bowed down. Seas would have roared. Trees would have clapped their hands. But the earth held it's breath. As silent as snow falling, he came in. And when no one was looking, in the darkness, he came.

This song was recently shared with me and it seems fitting for this story...

Merry Christmas

~LL