Today is the day that I decided to get the Christmas tree put up. It's a difficult job but someone has to do it and that someone is me. It's because I'm the one that is fussy about how the lights look. Back to putting the tree up - it's not putting the tree branches in their slots that's difficult - it's putting the lights on the tree that's the hard part. The tree has been upstairs waiting to be put up since Thanksgiving but I just haven't had the desire or, more importantly, the energy to do it. Until tonight - I thought I would just check the lights - that's all, just get them out of the box and plug them in and see if they worked. Each string worked perfectly which almost NEVER happens. I looked a the table covered with brightly covered Christmas tree lights and I was stunned by a burst of absurd happiness. Just seeing the lights reminded me of the happiness of Christmas. I didn't think of the hundred and one things that needed to be done - I just sat and felt happy. It felt like Jesus said - just sit and enjoy. So we sat there Jesus and Me and we looked at the lights. Then I got up and put them on the tree - at least half of them are on the tree.
You might wonder where this is going with regard to the Advent Project. My goal is to just look for and hopefully find Jesus every day; to think about where I experienced his presence in my life and and try to listen for what He is trying to tell me. Today, I think he is saying - right now, in this time and place - take time to enjoy. It's this filling up of his presence in myself that gave me the energy to act. I don't do enough just sitting with Him. I think that is the beginning of where I got off track with him when my husband went into the ministry - my focus shifted from sitting watching the lights together to doing the hundred and one things that I felt I had to do.
Today I found Jesus when I tested the Christmas Tree lights.
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