What does it mean to live as if every day were Christmas?
Christmas is gone…
The Christmas tree?
Taken down…
Outside lights?
Stored for another year…
Decorations that littered…I mean “adorned” … the house?
Hidden away for another year.
Most of them, anyway.
In a spare bedroom…
The blocks that used to spell ‘NOEL’ stand forgotten on a table…
In the family room…
Three Christmas ornaments sit forlornly in a corner.
Hiding in drawers…
Lurking under furniture…
The vestiges of Christmas wait to make surprise appearances…
Their vestigial presence as welcome as appendicitis.
No longer visible enough to fill our house or move our hearts …
Appearing just often enough to make us ask, “Why did we buy all those Christmas decorations?”
Sometimes I treat my relationship with God the same way…
Carefully hiding away His love for another time…
Leaving mere vestiges in the corners of my soul…
Love reduced to vestiges no longer visible enough to bring glory to God…
…let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16
Vestiges appearing just often enough to make me ask, “Why did I try to follow God?”
Just often enough to become irritants when I yearn for the treasures of this world…
Yearn…
Forgetting God has said…
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth… For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21
Forgetting God gives us every day to bring glory not to ourselves, but to Him…
…whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
Forgetting He gives us every day to thank Him for the gift of His love and grace…
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
4 thoughts on “If Every Day Were Christmas”
Amen!! We pray to remember you, Lord, on everyday life not just at Christmas
Amen to that prayer!
Happy New Year, Bob! I love reading your blog–so happy to have discovered it!
Thank you, Mary. Happy New Year to you!