John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
I am reading a YouVersion Bible Plan this advent called Rediscovering the Christmas Season. I feel I need it as I had lost my perspective on Christmas . I sense I am healthier this year in my mindset about Christmas and more ready to make an effort to be in a mood to rejoice and celebrate the season of Christ's birth. The mind fog of grief has lifted just enough for me to enjoy seeing the Christmas lights already twinkling throughout our little town. I decided we should set our own twinkles with a tree on our deck this year. So my husband and I went Sunday afternoon to a friends property to cut our own. After a bit of four wheeling over brush and stumps with a few rocks we came to the one perfect for our deck and my husband cut it down. It now sits on our porch awaiting our placement on the deck with handy work to make a twinkling Christmas statement.
Oddly enough since this desire to set some Christmas adornment on the deck I have sunk into a place of deepening pain of my son's absence. This grieving stuff is tricky business it wields its blade at any time it wants. I am working at my advent study and taking my time to study God's word with pain searing through me. This morning I listened to a rendition of Cloverton's Cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" all the while weeping and trying to thank God for his Son's arrival, and for the beauty of this Christmas season. I did it, and I meant it even hurting for a lost son . I also rejoiced as that lost son is only lost to this world. Because of the Christ child he is in heaven now.
This photo is of the face of my son that is on the back of his bench at his grave. Each year since the night of his death we go as a family to his grave and remember him as he was and try to take some of the tragedy of that night away. I love the candle light under his face in this .
Jesus came to bring light to the world . O come , O come Immanuel!
John 8:12 says:
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said," I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
I am reading a YouVersion Bible Plan this advent called Rediscovering the Christmas Season. I feel I need it as I had lost my perspective on Christmas . I sense I am healthier this year in my mindset about Christmas and more ready to make an effort to be in a mood to rejoice and celebrate the season of Christ's birth. The mind fog of grief has lifted just enough for me to enjoy seeing the Christmas lights already twinkling throughout our little town. I decided we should set our own twinkles with a tree on our deck this year. So my husband and I went Sunday afternoon to a friends property to cut our own. After a bit of four wheeling over brush and stumps with a few rocks we came to the one perfect for our deck and my husband cut it down. It now sits on our porch awaiting our placement on the deck with handy work to make a twinkling Christmas statement.
Oddly enough since this desire to set some Christmas adornment on the deck I have sunk into a place of deepening pain of my son's absence. This grieving stuff is tricky business it wields its blade at any time it wants. I am working at my advent study and taking my time to study God's word with pain searing through me. This morning I listened to a rendition of Cloverton's Cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" all the while weeping and trying to thank God for his Son's arrival, and for the beauty of this Christmas season. I did it, and I meant it even hurting for a lost son . I also rejoiced as that lost son is only lost to this world. Because of the Christ child he is in heaven now.
This photo is of the face of my son that is on the back of his bench at his grave. Each year since the night of his death we go as a family to his grave and remember him as he was and try to take some of the tragedy of that night away. I love the candle light under his face in this .
Jesus came to bring light to the world . O come , O come Immanuel!
John 8:12 says:
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said," I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
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