Today was Pumpkin Patch and first-day-of-pumpkin-pie day. It was a mercy and a joy to realize I had an outfit that looked like Fall and felt like Summer as it does here in the desert.
I'm discovering these little things here and there in the great romance with my Savior. It's a dare, isn't it, to make a spiritual connection the most significant thing in your life - and isn't it also worth it because sometimes heaven reaches a finger down and touches the sandy ground?
That outreach -that sistine-chapel-painting kind of infusion of God's work into man's world - that's part of what Christmas is about. Today I drove down the street to this - it hadn't been raining. It was just a little touch... that's what i'm talking about.
I can hardly think or type about it without becoming a bit giddy or choked up. All of it - the nativity, the gingerbread houses, the plastic and raffia bows, the pine needles and wishes for snow - I want all of it.
Last year was my first working full-time while raising kids, and in some sad ways I felt like the whole thing rushed right by like a one-horse open sleigh and I almost never heard the bells. Christmas Eve I actually got the house clean, the stockings hung by the chimney with care, and the TV glowing with music on the holiday station (oh - soon!), and for a moment, all was calm and bright, and I savored.
I want more of that this year. I am thinking that this year, I want to invest, not spend. Less rush, more prepare.
A couple of things I'm thinking about:
- the SRT Advent study. Contemplating buying the book.
- The Gettys' Christmas Concert in Carnegie Hall. Wouldn't it be SO GREAT to be part of it? Maybe next year.
- whose gifts to buy, and whose to make
A question: any suggestions for new Christmas music this year?
Comfort and joy -
- Kim
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