I was thinking the other day ... a lot of people place a lot of hope in winning the lottery.
I don't think there is really anything such as coincidence. I think that there is a whole lot more going on than that. Somebody up there clever is still in charge :-)
Anyway - while I was thinking myself admittedly - about all the things I could do if I won the lottery - I got to thinking ... more truly ... the thought popped in my head that if I did win the lottery, I would have nothing left to look forward to.
That is the same about knowing the future.
I don't want to know the future. Don't want to know horror-scopes filled with doom and gloom that are mostly computer generated (had a science teacher tell me that).
I am looking forward to it though. I believe it is going to be good.
But there is a joy in not knowing what it is going to contain.
A long time ago, I felt pretty hopeless. I have my hope renewed though. That is pretty special. For the first time today, I put my youngest child on one of those $2 rides at the shopping centre. I used to be such a tightwad that I had refused to do things like that with my other two children. What a shame.
It isn't the $27.8 million dollars that makes you truly rich - it is those $2 moments with your children, surrounded by your family and loved ones that make you realise that you are richly blessed. Family and true friends are priceless.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Why You Should Celebrate Christmas (Well, well I do anyway)
I have been looking around at so many of the Christmas displays and it has changed since when I was a child - I think the Nativity scene used to be displayed a lot more.
I was reading an article about preparing Christmas decorations around your home, and nowhere did it say about a Nativity scene.
A birth long ago - has it become irrelevant now? Not to me? It's the whole reason for my existence.
That birth was a man - God become man - who declared his love for me and for multitudes of others when he took all of my failures up upon himself on a cross. Then died. I thank God that wasn't the end of the story - it truly is my neverending story.
I thank Him, at the end of the day, that He is there now, on a throne, somewhere beyond the reaches of the heavens, at the ends of the infinite universe, still smiling, knowing that this little child inside of me smiles every day, because of Him.
On my Christmas shopping list, for the very first time this year, I am going to buy myself a nativity scene, and send up a little prayer of thanks.
I was reading an article about preparing Christmas decorations around your home, and nowhere did it say about a Nativity scene.
A birth long ago - has it become irrelevant now? Not to me? It's the whole reason for my existence.
That birth was a man - God become man - who declared his love for me and for multitudes of others when he took all of my failures up upon himself on a cross. Then died. I thank God that wasn't the end of the story - it truly is my neverending story.
I thank Him, at the end of the day, that He is there now, on a throne, somewhere beyond the reaches of the heavens, at the ends of the infinite universe, still smiling, knowing that this little child inside of me smiles every day, because of Him.
On my Christmas shopping list, for the very first time this year, I am going to buy myself a nativity scene, and send up a little prayer of thanks.
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