Waiting for the Hush!

Tonight the week before we celebrate our Savior's birth begins and so does the hush in our lives. The weeks have been busy - nursing a friend who had been injured in an accident, two trips to the East Coast, a trip to Germany, a trip to Denver, a crowd for Thanksgiving with Gary's parents and other family for most of a week. music to prepare for Church programs, Gary's Lab students for dinner (there were 30) and keeping two adorable grandchildren for the past four days…..and life keeps going and going and going……….I might add that Gary's Fall has been much the same too. Some Christmas preparations still lay before us I might add

But this year we have a new tradition after 41 years of marriage. We will not climb in the car and drive 750 miles to the East Coast to visit friends and family. We will not run from place to place. We are staying home for Christmas! And I'm ready for a new Christmas hush. We will still have our children and grandchildren who are here over on Christmas Eve going to church to remember our Savior's birth right in the middle of the evening. And we will spend Christmas day with just six of us: Katie, her husband of less than six months, Alan and Alan's parents Margaret and Frank. (It's a wonderful thing to enjoy the in-laws as friends too!) We will miss our family in Berlin and, hopefully with spend some time on Skye.

Christmas Day will be quiet with puzzles, games, a movie or two and the family tradition of quiche and blueberry muffins, etc. to eat. There are
reconnections to be made in the time before and around the celebration of God come to Earth to redeem us. Who is that man that I share our home with?  We've missed each other and hope to spend a lot of time together. And I crave more time in my Sun room, hopefully looking out at the snow with the Lord of the Universe who, marvelously, miraculously wants to visit with me and came to earth and gave Himself for me that that might happen.

Christ came as a baby to die as a man on a tree for my sins. He rose again to prove that the debt for my sins, for your sins had been paid. I look at the Christmas Creche as the hush begins, thinking of that. Do you know Him? Have you asked Him to apply that earned forgiveness to your life? If you haven't please do, then enjoy the hush and the peace that can follow your life even in the busiest of times, knowing Him, the Savior of the World. This Christmas I will enjoy Him and life in the hush

How silently, how silently,
The wondrous Gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive Him still,
The dear Christ enters in.