Christmas quiz

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?  Gift bags....why create work?

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial

3. When do you put up the tree? When I have time...around second week of December.

4. When do you take the tree down? Early January .

5. Do you like eggnog? Not so much.

6. Favourite gift received as a child? rabbit fur earmuffs from my dad

7. Do you have a nativity scene?  no

8. Hardest person to buy for? my dad

9. Easiest person to buy for?  My mom

10. Worst Christmas gift ever received? movies

11. Mail or email Christmas card?  I email to all my email friends and send cards to others.

12. Favourite Christmas Movie?  The Snowman

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? In December

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes.

15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?   Stuffing

16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree? Does it matter?

17. Favourite Christmas song? God With Us

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?  Depends on the year....I like both

19. Can you name Santa's reindeers?   Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen Rudolf

20. Do you have an Angel on top or a star?  Angel

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Morning.

 22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?  spending frenzy

23. Best thing about Christmas? friends and family

whisper

i was minding my own business

when he spoke to me

he speaks through the most unlikely people at times

the old man who would not speak showed me he is my brother

the children dancing and padding towards the creche with their gifts shared their naked faith

the moms nursing their babies

the santa man full of love

expressed the intensity of the familial

sean the recovering drug addict seaching for who he is showed me who I am

the guy with the scratching voice and dylan song taught me god uses every saint if you let him

nathan's heart challenges my own

the artists

the creators

they all move me to tears

through them he reminds me

he made me in the secret place but longs to show me great and wonderful things i do not know

with him there are no secrets

i may need more time

seven minutes to say all that is within me...
i know it is just scratching the surface of the deep open space....
every time i find something new...
it drops from my fingertips....
falling to the surface in one slow dive...
leaving concentric circles...
pushing farther to the unknown...
with an echo that disturbs the serenity of order..
the quiet of safety...
the stillness of ignorance....
lily sang with urgency....
i hear you singing that same tune...
i am training my ear to it...
for it is a foreign tongue to me..
it scratches my ear like a needle on a record...
round and round that static call beckons

a thought or two

About insecurity.......I am reading this book about U2.....Bono shares about his incredible vulnerability and insecurity......masked by the music....he said for some people they are so secure and believe in themselves and God lets them be doctors or lawyers or other professions. But God knew how empty he was, and how he would need to stand before people and feel their love night after night, even though it is still never enough.

I listened to my CD for the first time in about 5 months......for the first time ever....I listened to the words in a different way and realized how vulnerable and full of doubts I am....It is all over the lyrics...So painfully needing to be carried to the REST of God.

We are a triune being. We have a body, a soul and a spirit. I think that the creative person is so in touch with their soul, the emotions and thoughts, so self aware, it is painful sometimes. Other people who do not have that level of self awareness can just glide through life not feeling the nuance of every interaction. I, however am wide open and every brush or nick I get in day to day life leaves me so vulnerable and insecure. I think the creative, or song writer.......has tapped into the pipeline God uses to speak to man.......words......and song is the universal language that all can understand because it is attached to the soul. Put the vulnerability of the soul with the cutting truth of words and the spirit of God and you have and incredibly powerful medium. That my friends is no longer insecurity.....but Godly confidence.

grrr!

Girl
relax
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