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I was whining today because I didn't have my D'Artangnan and I had to return one of the pretty blouses that Lynn bought me. So much for Christmas presents.
Then I started thinking about how my Christmas' I spent alone, begging God to send me the perfect man. The man He had created just for me. How many times had I wanted to just be with my family and they were so far away? The Christmas before my Charlie died I remember that we didn't have any presents for each other. We lived in that tiny little house that had cockroaches from hell. I remember thinking that we didn't have much, but we had our health and each other.
As I type this, I am watching my sweet husband sleep. I have been blessed. Blessed far beyond anything any mortal woman should be blessed with. My daughter is grown now and providing a good home for her kids. My mom is married to a man that worships the ground she walks on. My friends are happy. My bills are paid. I have the love and respect of many more people than I did way back then.
My Redeemer lives! Christmas is about His birth, not how many presents I can give or receive. Yes, my Redeemer lives!! Somehow that has brought tears to my eyes. I am so very greatful for His love and Salvation.
Wow, I didn't expect that when I started this journal.
Then I started thinking about how my Christmas' I spent alone, begging God to send me the perfect man. The man He had created just for me. How many times had I wanted to just be with my family and they were so far away? The Christmas before my Charlie died I remember that we didn't have any presents for each other. We lived in that tiny little house that had cockroaches from hell. I remember thinking that we didn't have much, but we had our health and each other.
As I type this, I am watching my sweet husband sleep. I have been blessed. Blessed far beyond anything any mortal woman should be blessed with. My daughter is grown now and providing a good home for her kids. My mom is married to a man that worships the ground she walks on. My friends are happy. My bills are paid. I have the love and respect of many more people than I did way back then.
My Redeemer lives! Christmas is about His birth, not how many presents I can give or receive. Yes, my Redeemer lives!! Somehow that has brought tears to my eyes. I am so very greatful for His love and Salvation.
Wow, I didn't expect that when I started this journal.
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What a wonderful testimony of God working in your life. Thanks so much for sharing. I think we always have to put Jesus first no matter what is going on in our lives. But it is nice when things are really working out.
PogoPalOj
I was very tired and a little blue when I started that journal entry. Then suddenly, My Redeemer Lives, popped into my heart. Tears of joy streamed down my face for about twenty minutes after that. The joy and love that the Holy Spirit gave me was beyond description. My laughing and crying even woke my hubby up. I could only sit and absorb the gift.
Bandmom5
What a great message, Pogo. I needed to hear it. Christmas is different for me in the past decade or so, just so commercialized and materialistic, and I've come to dread it because of those things, because of demands from a secular society that are hard to ignore. Chuck Swindoll wrote something in one of his books many years ago about how we seem unable to choose the important over the urgent, and that is what I've tried to work on.It's difficult when friends and family have expectations that are not focused on the reason for the season. But you are so right, our Savior is born, and our Redeemer lives! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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