Wrapping up

It's hard to believe it's Christmas eve! Where has the time gone?! What a busy year full of delights, disappointments, joy, sorrow, rest (only a little!), stress (a lot!), consistency and change. Besides some gifts that have gotten wrapped up, I am wrapping up the month ~ and year.

Tonight, we celebrated Christmas with our family ~ Arthur, Giles, Emily & Joe. We had dinner together. Non-traditional is our tradition. I don't "do" pork (on rare occasion bacon, but other than that, not a chance). We had stewed beef in a gravy of cream of mushroom & french onion soups with red wine added. Yummy over wide egg noodles.

It was wonderful to have our family together! We are so blessed!

As I reflect back on the year that is ending & look forward to the one coming, I am in awe of God's hand in my life & the lives of those I love. (OK ~ even in the lives of those I'm not quite so fond of, but that's His doing, not mine.)

He is GOD & yet He cares about the details of my life. The things I worry about, delight in or whatever ~ He is interested ... in my life that will pass like a puff of smoke. Oh, that my life will be a sweet fragrant offering in His nostrils! If I accomplish anything in this life, I pray it will bring glory & honor to God: the Father, who sent His son to earth; the Son, who put aside being God to become human ~ like taking off a coat & hanging it on a chair to put back on later; & the Spirit, who is constantly in my head ~ the "voices in my head" is really just His, talking to me & me talking to him.

It's overwhelming to me ~ to try & sort it out, figure it out, reason it out. He's GOD. He wraps me in his arms, calls me his child, loves me as his own, & cares for those I love. I don't understand it all ~ it's too much to comprehend. All I know is that he is GOD & I trust him.

I don't always trust myself ~ but that's a topic for another post on another day.