I started to post this a few weeks ago but decided it was way too sappy! Just decided tonight to go ahead anyway after I saw Jen's nativity on her blog.
Mother bought me the blue creche at an art festival the first Christmas in our other house. The lady that painted it was handicapped and couldn't walk but did this beautiful ceramic work. The detail is just amazing. Their faces look so holy! Phyllis bought the Fontanini one for us about the same time. They are permanent fixtures in my Christmas decorations and seem to be all I really want.
When the children were small I would always try to get the nativity scenes out first before any of the other decorations in hopes to make an impression on them as "the reason for the season". In my hope to make an impression on them I think I was the one that the tradition became a such a time of reflection and love. I always put on my Christmas music and amazingly at just the time I am ready to put it altogether on the shelf, Vince Gill's Breath of Heaven has come on. "Hold me together, be forever near me, Breath of Heaven! Breath of Heaven lighten my darkness, pour over me your holiness for you are holy!" I can't explain the feeling but I know God has spoken to me in those times reminding me that he is all we need to face whatever comes our way and He is the reason for the season!
Okay, so I am looking for something to post that will make us all laugh! I am way too serious!
Merry Christmas!
1 comment:
They still look great! You always put stuff together so well I need to take some lessons. "Breath of Heaven" is my favorite Christmas song too.
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