Holy-days

You will not do any ordinary work.
       You are to be before the Lord. Focused on Him.  Celebrate Him.
            You will gather with other believers. . .

His Words repeated over and over through Leviticus 23 as the festivals were laid out before the Israelites . . . fill me with joy. . . God teaching His people to celebrate.

And we celebrated.

Even as Christmas decorations are packed away for another year, reverberations of celebration continue in my heart.  And my heart smiles.


Father, thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus.  
     We celebrated by stopping our ordinary work.  
          We celebrated Him in our hearts and in our homes. 
               And we gathered. . .   


Thank You for the joy that grows and fills and overflows into color and laughter and food, crafts and children and ordinary lives.  Your precious Gift remembered.  


May celebration echo in your heart for days.
Love always,
Angie

The God-setting-things-right that we read about 

has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. 

And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. 

For there is no difference between us and them in this. 

Since we've compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) 

and proved that we are utterly incapable of living 
the glorious lives God wills for us, 

God did it for us. 

Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. 

A pure gift. 

He got us out of the mess we're in 

and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. 

And he did it by means of 

Jesus Christ.

The Message, Romans 8:22-24