With graduation, traveling, and being home for the holidays, we have been having a lot of fun this year.
This just seemed fitting! We wish you all an amazing christmas and a blessed year to come.
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(P) Merry Christmas!
During this season I am grateful. I am grateful for the opportunity to travel this year, mild december weather (compared to last year in Iowa!), fireplaces, a good job, good books, family, church community, personal growth, opportunities to study and learn, Christmas lights, a peaceful spirit, and seeing God's hand on my life. Most of these look radically different than they did a year ago for one reason or another, and I am blessed because of them. But I am worried too. About money and getting debt payed off. About making the right choices with my time. About the future. I am in a peaceful place, one of growth and rest. Yet the worry lurks; it eats away at the dark unguarded corners of my mind. Where is my trust in the maker's plan in those places? The Lord illuminates even the darkest places of man's hearts does He not? But perhaps I like those places to be dark and unguarded. Maybe I am feeding the beast. I think logically and I scoff at any inclination to desire worry or unrest. Then I think again. I think about how diligently I have practiced worry all these years. It comes so naturally. I think about that sinful pull to be my own savior and control every outcome. If I do not try for control, then my life may not turn out just right. Right? Well, maybe not. It always comes back to the basics. Is He omniscient? Are His plans bigger than mine, or better? Is He good? Is He loving? I know He is. I know He is because he has proven Himself to me time and time again. When I am honest with myself, I know that I am like the Israelites: always forgetting and turning to other gods. While my gods are pride and worry, not Baal and Asherah, the principal is the same. So this season my goal is to remember, not just baby Jesus but God incarnate. The Father had a plan. His plan was good. The world's plan was "just be a good person," or "do what feels right to you," or "what really counts is hard work and success." His plan was to redeem us into an eternity of truest peace and purest love. I choose His plan. So, this Christmas season I am striving to quit practicing worry, and instead practice trusting his character and plan. |
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