Have you put up Christmas decorations yet? I’ve begun to set ours up and hope that tomorrow I’ll find another couple of hours to finish. For the past few years, I’ve minimized our decorations but this year I’m looking forward to getting out old family favorites and enjoying them.
And I’m listening to lots of Christmas music—and my husband plays many of my favorites on his guitar, too—and I sing along as I putter around the house.
And yet, and yet. . . . Christmas is about so much more than decorations and songs.
Like Lloyd Ogilvie, I pray, “Dear Father, I don’t want to miss the true joy of Christmas. I long for the authentic quality of joy that’s an outward expression of an inner experience of Your grace.”
Ogilvie goes on to pray this Christmas prayer: “Help me to receive the full measure of Your unqualified love that will result in a day bursting with joy.
“I hear the words of the angel . . . ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, among men in whom He is well pleased’ (Luke 2:14).
“ . . . ‘For You did not send Your Son into the world to condemn me, but that through Him I might be saved’ (John 3:17).
“My heart leaps. Joy is the ecstasy of heaven for those who know they are loved and forgiven.” (Lloyd John Ogilvie, Quiet Moments with God)
If your memoir includes stories about Christmas,
how can you pass on to your kids, grandkids,
great-grands, and other readers the true joy of Christmas?
Be intentional.
You can’t likely imagine how many years
your stories will live in the minds and hearts of your readers.
There you have it, your Tuesday Tidbit.
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