Psalm 122:1-4

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” 2 Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together. 4 To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

I awoke very early this morning thinking about decorating the house for Christmas. Many of the decorations have memories - some happy, some silly, and some very sad. Every year I look at them and remember a different time and place. Like small gifts from our children and grandchildren made by them to decorate our Christmas tree, to a note on an old box of lights written by my father in the last year he was on earth with us.

Christmas is like this: everything is accumulated in a very short time but the baby Jesus is always there smiling and you know everything is the way it should be and life with Jesus will keep us stronger and on the right path of life.

Prayer: Father, help me to remember the reason for decorating our home, not for my glory but to the glory of God, from which all good is born in the form of a baby - “Jesus”. Amen.

- Nancy Allen