On Christmas Eve

"You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!"   ... Isaiah 26:3

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Hey. We're each allowed our little idiosyncrasies right?  シ



December. If you've read here long you know it's not my favorite month. 

Maybe it's that wild 'tyranny of the oughts and shoulds' raising its head. I'm not sure. But what I prefer? Those other 11 delights-are-waiting months where our unique God can, poof! Surprise someone through you who needed exactly what He nudged you to give them on a regular ol' Monday--

--and they know it's God, not you, because of the timing and the crazy, specific details. And God gets the credit bulk (as He always should).

Anyway, usually I'm tired of ho-ho-ho December by the 8th, but this year? I actually enjoyed the merry-making until the 22nd. Must be either progress or acceptance or bits of both.  ツ

But still, always I'll love my regular ol' days best, and oh my goodness! God gives me--He gives each of us--so very, very many of them in which to grow to love Him and others more.

He is so extravagant that way.

                                   (Thanks, Dolores, for sharing this at Facebook!) 

Merry Christmas to you!



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Here are some gifts I found at Twitter. Some days it feels like revival over there!

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." ----- Dorothy Thompson

"Mary Poppins Returns wants to teach us, as Mary Poppins did nearly 60 years ago, that life is what you fill it with. Tragedy will hit, and life will take some unexpected turns, but nothing is ever completely lost."

---- Plugged-In

"Even though there will be struggles, remember God is with you, and is enabling, training, teaching, preparing you every minute of every day... I guarantee if you spend time daily thanking God for all your blessings you'll experience more joy than you are right now."

--- Neil Vermillion

“The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.” ... ---Nahum 1:7

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