How different that first Christmas was from today. My house will most likely end up being "good enough" when the exhaustion sets in tonight, but it will still be mostly clean and it will be safe for my children. Already it is much cleaner than it normally is on any other day. Yet when I think about the first Christmas night I realize that there was no "nesting" done in order to prepare for the birth of the new baby. Can you imagine bringing a baby into the world, wrapping them in a blanket & laying them in hay used by animals? The idea is unheard of and yet every year we celebrate the birth of a baby who came into the world this way.
Joseph and Mary's humility amazes me. Never did they fight for a proper setting for the birth of a king. They humbly took what was offered them and went on with the task of bringing our Savior into this world. I imagine they were gracious and grateful for a place to bring this child into the world not matter how humble the setting.
So as I prepare my home for jolly old Saint Nick I hope that I remember that while I am blessed to live in a clean, heated, beautiful home of modern convenience the most important part of this Christmas season is that our Father in Heaven sent us the gift of his perfect son. His perfection was not in how clean his surrounding were or whether there was a bow on the frankincense and myrrh or not. His perfection came in how he loved so perfectly His brothers and sisters and how perfectly He followed the will of His father. Perhaps that is what we should finish off our year with and how we should start the next year. Maybe that will change the world in all the ways it needs to be changed. Maybe all we need is to love our Father and His son and all His children just as perfectly as we can. Then when we do make mistakes we can repent and try a little harder tomorrow to do our best yet again. Merry Christmas brothers and sisters!!!
Love,
Marlies
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