Well, gee, I hope you all are loving it, ’cause I sure am!
Maybe it’s posting all the Christmas hymns and carols that makes it come alive for me. Maybe it’s all the Christmases I’ve known, renewing their acquaintance.
So are you loving this Christmas of 2019?
True: I miss the people whom I used to share it with. On around the age of 50, you start losing people. When you’re 20 it never occurs to you. But love ’em now, because you won’t have them forever. Not until we all get to Heaven.
But even that sense of loss is a reminder of that glorious restitution that the Lord Our God has promised us. The first down payment on that promise was the birth of God’s own Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord. We who believe in Him shall not die, but have everlasting life: it was for “the selfsame thing” that God created us in the first place (2 Corinthians 5:5).
So God has said.
I love anything that is centered on Messiah. The music, the more cheerful atmosphere, the planning and preparation and doing things to please our loved ones; all good. First and foremost is the honor to God.
Yesssss I’m loving it!!!
I’m loving it as well!
For some reason during this Christmas season, I am really thinking of our parallel to the Israelites as we await the second coming. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus!
woww…such a fantastic blog.
Thanks for the wisdom imparted here about losing friends at age 50
Friends and family. By the time you’re 70, there aren’t many left. I am now the oldest living member of my family. Who in the world ever expects to be that???
Wow. You’re the patriarch now
Lucky me.
But I imagine its very sad
It is.
😢
I get really high and emotional this time of year. Maybe the Earth being the closest to the sun as it ever gets has something to do with it 🙂
A lot of us feel that way.
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” Norman Vincent Peale – Clergyman (1898-1993)
Amen!