As Only Your Mama Can….

December 24, 2013

Dearest Daughter,

It is early at our home, the silence is sweet as your Ladder and brothers lie sleeping upstairs and as you lay sleeping at your home.  There is a light snow upon the ground….God’s little reminder that He makes all things beautiful.  I can hear my South Carolina and Indiana wind chimes sweetly singing through the windows both at the front and back of our home and I  can see the twinkle-lights on the poles of our porch….I am reminded that we are to “sleep in heavenly peace”…..

I hear “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas” playing in the background….

And, memories flood my heart full to bursting…..when I was young…of trips to Oklahoma to spend time with family we rarely see but who we hold close to our hearts.  The laughter fills my soul…..

The many times it was just my Mama and Daddy and the “five” of us….Christmas Carols playing and Christmas goodies baking…my Daddy and brothers chopping ice for the cattle and Mama and I making food and wrapping gifts listening to Andy Williams, Peggy Lee and most especially Bing Crosby.

Later still, sleeping on the couch waiting for my own little children to scurry down the stairs all excited to see what Santa brought this year….waiting….waiting…for the squeals of joy and the laughter and the excitement of innocent excitement that Santa’s reindeer ate the food we left for them and that Santa ate our home-made cookies.

Christmas has a way of bringing out the tenderness within a person’s heart….the goodness and sweetness and preciousness of family and friends and sharing and caring….

At the center of the heart of Christmas is the innocent love of children….who point the way to the ultimate heart of Jesus…

No matter what life has offered that year…..by the time you return once again to Christmas….you are back to the beginning of the baby who brought meaning to the holiday….

CHRISTmas…..

The older I grow…the more Christmases I celebrate, the more I come to realize the truth in the statement….

“Whenever I give….whenever I love….It’s Christmas”

 

Christmas is not just one day a year…It is everyday….

Because it is every day that we are here….because He was there….

When you have as your daily purpose to live for Him…..everything else in your life has purpose.

So….my prayer for you today, and for every day this upcoming year is that every day will hold all the blessings and sweetness and magic of Christmas…that in your heart will live the constant reminder of a wee little fellow who came unwrapped in things of the world to remind us of the sacred wrappings which come only from heaven.

And, that this constant heart reminder is not by chance, but on purpose….a daily choosing of your own to stay close to December 25^th each and every day….

That the magic of this day lives deep within your heart and fills your soul to overflowing….

Every day…

So, before your feet hit the floor in the morning….as you walk through out your day….when you go to lay down your head at night….

Chose CHRISTmas….

I Love You As Only Your Mama Can,

Mama