I had the chance to work hard, at work worth doing.
The weather was unusually cold for most of the season, making sweaters, the fire, and hot beverages especially appealing. (Though it did turn warm for Christmas.)
We have a beautiful Christmas tree, purchased early (compared to some recent years!), decorated in due season, and enjoyed in both passing glimpses and longer stretches settled on cushions.The other decorations also went up in a timely manner, and, although I love them every year, I think this year was the best!
Christmas carols began playing just after Thanksgiving -- my most "favoritest" of music.
We had the chance to go Christmas shopping... more than once! And recognized God's blessings with perfect items for intended recipients... complete with perfect prices!
God led me to some "just right" Christmastime reading -- soft, reassuring, and pleasant. During the course of the season, I read Tidings of Comfort & Joy (by T. Davis Bunn), Finding Father Christmas (by Robin Jones Gunn), The Twenty-four Days before Christmas (by Madeleine L'Engle), The Christmas Bride, and The Substitute Guest (both by Grace Livingston Hill).
I was able to enjoy some holiday movies... of the sort where, on Christmas Eve, orphans find homes, people get engaged (or married!), and it snows. I like those movies.
I'm just so grateful for God's blessings this season... He blessed our work, and poured out good gifts in abundance, and late one night, reminded me...
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Isaiah 9:2
1 comment:
I wish I had read this at Christmas time, but it was really nice to sit here and "feel" Christmas again, and take my time with it. Your home looks absolutely beautiful, Katie. You and your mom have a wonderful way with finding just the right thing at just the right time for just the right place or person.
Boy, we watched lots of Christmas movies too, always of the happy sort! With Courtney's illness, we watched every single one that fit the bill that came on in December. I heart my DVR. :)
I will have to look up the Madeleine L'engle book - I really like some of her books. Some are "odd..." but she really impressed me with her book, "Walking on Water." She writes well.
I also love your Scripture verse... I have pondered that verse often over the course of Christmas, too... I have a friend in a very dark place right now, and that is the verse that continues to give me hope for her... and for us all. :)
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