EVERY CHRISTMAS SEASON my mother would pin Christmas cards to the curtains in the living room where the family tree always sat. She smiled as she read each one aloud to the family and always expressed how glad she was to hear from each person. The cards were usually received and displayed not later than a week before the 25th. They covered every inch of the curtains and overflowed into the rest of the room. Every person who sent a card was a part of our family's Christmas decorations.
No surprise, then, that some of my favorite moments every year include receiving and reading Christmas cards, family and friend updates, and notes that bring special thoughts from each one. That someone thinks of me and takes the time to write kind words on purchased stationary, usually with included photos, and with seasonal postage, is impressive. Even the greetings and wishes on Facebook—a remembrance often with humorous or other endearing personal remarks about Christmases past or birthday wishes to me (Christmas Eve)—these things are pure joy for me.
Why? While these things seem so common they are in fact testimonies of God through other humans who used the breath that God loaned them to honor me. But their testimony isn’t so much about me as it is telling a story about who they are! I have wonderful friends! What they write about only announces to everyone who hears or reads what they say that they are actually hearing what the Spirit has written on their hearts. And, No. I do not take any of this for granted—nor are they to go unacknowledged. Think I’m making a big deal out of everyday common courtesy or something to be expected? Well. I think we should never assume nor miss that glimpse of the glory in the ordinary. I believe life is always more than what it seems.
“You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah delivered by us—written not with ink but with the Ruach (Hebrew for Breath or Spirit) of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
~ II Corinthians 3:2-3.
©️ mypericope.com,December 2020
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