Christmas music is currently playing on the boom box next to me (a bit too loud I must say), the kiddos are eating lunch, the house is on its way to being a bit cleaner. For every mess I clean, another gets made. This is a lesson all Moms know (and ok...SOME Dads) and it's downright annoying. I cleaned the playroom and then moved on to hanging lights in the kids' rooms...only to find that they had then made a pretty sizable mess in the playroom. Ughh. The light is at the end of the tunnel though...NAP TIME is approaching! So...the girls will nap, Caleb will do quiet time, and MAYBE I'll be able to get some cleaning done. My goal: the MOUNTAIN of clean clothes in the hallway...get them folded AND put away. When that is done I dare say that I hope to also vacuum and empty/fill the dishwasher. May as well reach for the stars right? ;0)
As this season is full upon us now..and I am FINALLY actually feeling like it is the Christmas season, I reflect on what an AMAZING thing God did. Have his son sent HERE to Earth...knowing what would come. Do all of us that have kids not count the days during our pregnancies, relishing in our baby's growth, loving the wonderful thing inside of us before even meeting him/her. Then when our baby is born we can't help but to think of all of the wonderful things to come. The milestones, the memories. How would those be overshadowed if we knew exactly how and when (and quite horribly) our little one would die? Yet He did it. He did it for us. It truly gives me goosebumps each time I think of it. He loves us so much that he had his son born for us, to die for us. I don't think I could see my son skin a knee for someone else...at my hand...much less the horrible death Christ was put through.
What an AWESOME God. How very unworthy I feel yet how overpowered I am by His love, grace, and forgiveness.
Thank you Lord.

I shall return later...hopefully in victory over my goals!
:0)
~robin

2 comments

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