Sleigh bells ring. Are ya list’nen?
I’m not.
In the lane, snow is gliss’nen…
Snow. What snow. I’m looking out the window at my wheat field and wondering, is it really time for the tree? It’s 60 degrees for heaven’s sake.
A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight… (well some of us are.)
W is almost ten and is wondering is Santa for true. Barney is frustrated with him for not believing. I just wink and say, “You’ve gotta believe, Love. You just gotta believe.”
Truthfully as I say this, I wonder if I still do. Or. Am I caught up in the trivial things of life? How do you keep the wonder of Christmas alive in a meaningful simple way?
Author Jason F. Wright has a wonderful suggestion. Christmas jars. He wrote this book about taking a jar and filling it with change. Maybe adding a buck here and there, maybe even a twenty or fifty or hundred. Then the week before Christmas get the family and go walk through the winter wonderland and leave the jar and a copy of the book on some one’s door step, to be discovered later. Maybe at a home where someone has lost a job, or where someone is sick, or where someone simply needs a hand up.
A simple gift. A blessing to a stranger. Just like the first Christmas. One star. One promise. One Savior. One gift. A small gift that absolutely changed the world, one person at a time. One family at a time.
If we just believe…
and fill one jar.
We could too.
Join me.
Love,
Sis
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I believe.
A beautiful idea and one that I’m going to start. Will also pass the idea to my friends and family.
Bobbi Janay ~ I’m sooo glad you do. It’s not that I don’t believe in Jesus and His birthday. I just can’t believe that I can pull my focus so far from Him and so much on me.
I hope you’ll always here the bells ring at Christmas for believing.
CherylK ~ So glad you liked it. Our kids are sooo stoked. They can hardly wait to sneak it to someone’s porch.
Hope you all have many blessings this season.
Sis
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Lets us know the outcome of the jar.