This is a quote from Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. 

 

If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi?  Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds?  Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary?  For each one of us, there is a desert to travel.  A star to discover.  And a being within ourselves to bring to life.

-Author Unknown

 

I hope everyone has a blessed, peaceful and Merry Christmas!

Well, I have made it to Revelation in my daily reading.  I checked my notebook for when I began the New Testament and it was only December of last year.  Only took me a year to read the New Testament!    That has to be some kind of record. LOL  When I started Revelation I was very intimidated.  For me, it can be difficult to get a daily bread kind of thing from beasts, harlots, angels with bowls of wrath, etc.  I'm sorry but I'm just not ready to map out the signs of the times through history.  I'm not trying to be disrespectful, just honest.  So when I started I just prayed that the Lord would give me at least one scripture from each chapter to encourage me, convict me, feed me, every day, even if I didn't understand all of the images.  Yesterday I was so encouraged by one line in Revelation 15.  It is Revelation 15:1

 

 

I thought Praise God, there will be a day when God's wrath will be completed!  Compare that with every refrain in Psalms 136

 

1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
       His love endures forever.

 2 Give thanks to the God of gods.
       His love endures forever.

 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
       His love endures forever.

 4 to him who alone does great wonders,
       His love endures forever.

And it goes on.  His love will endure forever, for eternity, but His wrath will be completed.  I remember Bro. Mears talking about 1 Corinthians 13 and saying that charity is the greatest quality because there will come a day when we will no longer need faith and hope, because God's purposes will be fulfilled in the earth.  One day our hope will be realized, every promise will be fulfilled, and every knee will bow to the Lord, but there will never be an end to God's love.  I just think that's beautiful. 

Well, Christmas is 11 days away.  I always think my neighbors are crazy.  Some of them put their trees and lights up BEFORE Thanksgiving!  But now it seems Christmas will be here so fast, and it's kind of sad that everything will be coming back down.  I think it's because we're traveling at light speed 24 hours a day trying to get it all done.  The kids had a program at Mother's Day Out this past Tuesday.  Elijah sobbed huge, shaking sobs through the whole thing.  I thought Emily would be the one freaked out, but she just kind of stared at Elijah and then looked out at me and waved, "Hi Mommy!"  Lydia had a line and Aidan was in it too, he rang a bell.  It was really cute.  The kids have been fun this year with Christmas.  When we drive at night the twins love the lights!  Emily shouts, "Mommy look at that house!" the whole time, to the point that Lydia told her to stop saying that because she is not the boss of Mommy.  Which is hard for Emily to grasp, she thinks she's the boss of the entire world.  When I'm chaning Elijah's diaper (I know they should be potty trained) she leans over me and tries to grab the tapes of the fresh diaper and put it on him.  There's an advantage of twins, one can diaper the other!   When I am combing Emily's hair she says all my lines before me.  I put her on the counter and she says, "Look in the mirror, sit still, don't move, almost done ..." I wonder if she is mocking me, or is she kind of like Rainman, "gotta watch Wapner ..."  She needs her routine.  Elijah is obessesd with the movie Polar Express.  He starts asking for it the minute he wakes up.  He loves the dance number "Hot Chocolate" LOL  Lydia has been begging us to go to the North Pole.  We told her no, and she asked if she could go when she's thirteen. ???  I guess that's a good time to go to the North Pole.  Can you tell it's cleaning day and I have NO desire to clean my house?  Procrastination city.  Well, I guess I better get at it, enough rambling.