~Someone is Missing at Christmas~

I know there have been many searching for the words to "Someone is Missing at Christmas" and come to this site ~ However, since I made that post last Christmas, you gotta search through the archives to find them.

So, to those of you Missing Someone at Christmas, here are the powerful lyrics you are in search of. You can learn more about the story behind the song at Anne Cochran's site.

Also, since I am really working on "unbusying myself" this season, I'm gonna cheat for the rest of December and link to last December's posts :) I know there are many new readers that were not a part of Held By Him or Scrapbookers Bubble Bath this time last year ~ man is that exciting and humbling for me!!!!

Have a BEAUTIFUL and CHRIST FOCUSED Christmas ~ and, thanks for blessing my life!

~ Run to His Manger ~

Now that most of the rooms in the house have been painted to our liking, I have sewed, or at least purchased the material for all the windows, and, my husband's work party is over, I am finally ready to decorate for Christmas!!

While the kids were asleep, the first thing I put out was one of my favorite Nativity sets.

And, when my daughter came down the next morning, as she was peeking her little head around the corner, out of the corner of her eye, she saw the Nativity.

With the excitement that many of us adults have lost for this time of year, she RAN to the front of the Nativity, and knelt with a presence of awe and amazement.

As I watched her sitting at the feet of His Manger, I prayed that I would find myself running to His Manger this Christmas.

• We know we must strive to make the hustle and bustle not over-shadow the celebration of this Holy Time ~
• We know that we should be decorating with the attitude of "Celebrating His Birth" and not with the intent to make our house the most beautiful on the cul-de-sac ~
• We know the gifts are about showing our love not the size of our wallets ~
• We know there are too many that are too lonely or in too much pain this time of year ~
• We know that He so beautifully, yet humbly, came to give us the gift of eternal life ~

Yet, do we really stop and kneel at His Manger in complete worhip and praise? Do we truly grasp the loving hands of this Precious Holy Gift?

I have to admit that after seeing my daughter that morning, I put less decorations up this year, I made my to do list smaller, and I have been in a state of awe and praise for my Saviors birth.

That tiny manger has a gift that my words will never begin to explain, and that world will never fully grasp.

I so pray I can bring my family to His Holy Feet this Christmas.

Come, Let Us Run to His Manger, and, ADORE Him!