Today’s Living Faith
Community reading can be found on page 21, Day 5 – Transformation Takes Time
Today’s Bible Verse:
But we all . . . are being transformed into the same
image from glory to glory,
just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Corinthians 3:18
Today's entry really spoke to me. I can still remember my dad untangling the lights and not being happy about it. I don't think that he was angry at the lights, but at my mom for bugging him to do it. I think it is sad that is a memory from my childhood that sticks with me to this day. I hope that my children do not have one of those memories that they cannot forget.
ReplyDeleteI love the last sentence in this devotion "...memories are made in the doing, not in attaining an ideal." Many, many years ago I "let go" of having a perfectly decorated" Christmas tree. I found that it was much more fun to let my kids put ornaments where they thought they should go. So what if most of the do-dads were at the bottom of the tree! Children are short, and they put their favorite ornaments where they can see them. I get more joy out of their glorious faces than in having a "balanced" tree.
What is ironic about this entry is that Griff put up our tree yesterday for me. Today I get to decorate it. Last year I had my 3 year old grand-daughter to help me. I am sad that she goes to school 4 days a week now and I see her less often. So, today I will decorate my tree and remember (with much joy) the years when the children were underfoot while I sip my coffee with eggnog flavored creamer.
As Thomas Kinkade spoke of the process of his artwork, I looked back at the painting and saw all the details in his work. I thought about how tiny some of the brushes must have been to get the desired effect. What patience that required. I loved how he captured the lights in the windows and how the lights gave a sense of warmth to the home. When it comes to my home, I always say that it needs more warmth. I don't like a lot of things and I have never enjoyed decorating so accomplishing more warmth is a challenge. However during Christmas season our home always feels warmer. We only have a tree up but in the evening with the tree is decorated and lite, it feels warm and has such a simple beauty. It's a good reminder of how God wants to transform and the beauty that will come in that process.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering - does anybody know one of those professional decorators that can transform ME? Like just make me the person I need to be without all the work, the pain, the introspection, the PATIENCE - and do it NOW!
ReplyDeleteI didn't think so.