Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. [Lamentations- 3:40]
At this period of my life I find Christmas to be a time more representative of why it is in the first place. It is a day that God chose to bring the word to life. Easter is the day that justifys Christian faith but Christmas made that day some 35 years later possible. In between we as spiritual bings havin...g a human experience were given parables and miracles as well as examples in how to live and be pleasing to God. So, as we live and grow we will surely have times in our life where the flesh and earthly influences make us act in ways we know are short of the mark and humbling to how we see ourselves. I know all too well that I have had my share and will continue to have more. I will use this Christmas as an opportunity to give thanks for God's saving grace and the opportunity to repent and change in order to better reflect the God in us all.
It has been a few years now that i have been unconcerned with the receiving aspect of the season and more concerned with making sure my children have Christmases that they can look back on and smile just as I can when I remember the December 25ths of my youth. Now my gifts are found in prayer as I ask God for his Holy Spirit to occupy my heart as well as my family's hearts so we as individuals within the family unit can act as loving and patient members that actively seek to correct, instruct, and support each of the ones we love in this family known as the Virginia Sumners. We have known much stress and strife, much drama and sadness, much frustration in our desire to be more not only as persons but as a family. I pray that this year is a year the a Holy Spirit restores us to a path of God's making. To prosper us and not to harm us. To give us hope and a future.
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