November 25, 2010
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thanksgiving….
…. has come and almost gone. i was thinking last night while i was baking some desserts for today about family and get togethers. and about the masks we wear in life. i am done with the masks, yet if you stop wearing one and actually interact in honesty with people they really can’t handle it. so i just don’t get into conversations with some people. it isn’t worth listening to their lifestyle choices and they really don’t want to know what i think anyways. i sit and pray sometimes.
or tonight as i washed dishes for my mother in law as it was raining outside i overheard conversations. and i prayed. what is it about some people that they are so bent on impressing other people? or they must put other people down to make sure everyone knows what they think? i do not get it.
and i think of those with nothing. do they wonder where Christ is in this season? of people getting up at 2am to go shopping for a holiday that isn’t about shopping? of all the flyers we get in our newspaper for stuff to buy at cheap prices. is it things i truly need? why? when the economy is soooo horribly bad and so many are without jobs. why? i am bogged in thought sometimes.
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Sometimes the best place to be is doing the dishes and praying….what a difference it makes in our lives knowing that our value is not based on anything but the value He has given us. How freeing it is to know that I don’t have to impress anyone, all I have to be is me. And how freeing it is to be content with what I have and not having to join the masses tomorrow. I am thankful that the best thing in life is free – having Christ as my personal Saviour an friend – and along with this He gives us all things necessary for life and godliness.
My daughter was a casualty of the wall mart blitz attack. Someone elbowed her really hard in the head. She thought she was going to black out. She has a headache now. I’m glad I stayed home.
Christ needs to be more the reason for the season, especially with more and more people loosing their homes. People need tohave faith that they can go on and find the real meaning of Christmas and not standing in a line at Walmart at 4 am to get the sale item you think you kid wants.
Blessings to us all.