I just love Christmas!
I love it for all the right reasons and I love it for all the wrong reasons.
I love to decorate and among my most prized possessions are my Christmas decorations. Over the month of December I will be posting photos of my holiday décor just as I posted photos of my flowers and garden over the summer. It could get a bit gratuitous. In fact, I know it will—over-doing it for Christmas is one of my special talents.
However, the Christmas decoration that means the most is one that hangs on my wall all year long; a painting of Christ. I blog about funny things, silly things, some things that don’t matter and some that do but it is important to me to be clear that I consider the best message and greatest gift of all to be the life and atoning death of my Savior Jesus Christ. He gave us the gift of life in so many ways, a promise of life after this one as well as the chance to renew our life when it needs renewing. Most of all, his atonement wasn’t just about giving us the ability to repent when we sin—it gives us the ability to do things with our lives we never could have done without His sacrifice for us. The Atonement bridges the gap between what we can do and what we can’t do on our own. What could be better than that?
Most of all, I want to say this: when we give up what we want right now in order to walk in the path that He would have us walk, we obtain blessings of which we never dreamed AND we get that which we sacrificed, as well, when the time is right. I have seen this miracle happen in my life over and over and in the lives of others around me. In the end, we actually sacrifice nothing, we lose nothing worth having and we gain absolutely everything.
(Meanwhile, the blog tour continues. I would like to direct you to a blog of a gal who spent most of her married life in poverty and who has recently been blessed with financial success—a lot of it. Her blog is incredibly fascinating as she posts about the paradigm shift in her world. Sometime today she intends to blog about Miss D so be sure to check back if she hasn’t when you visit. Meanwhile, go back and read her posts from the beginning—her frank view of a world turned inside out is a real treat.)
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- Heidi
- Wife, mother, novelist, gardener, bloggist, lover of good books, roses and vintage charm; passionate about her family, words, roses, vintage home decor, found treasures and the color pink.
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