You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.

It’s Christmas JOY plus some jolly-ness that touches us, makes us smile. My mom blessed me with not just gifts but the fact that she PREprepared gifts that she PREwrapped before thanksgiving, when I visited her last, and handed me the bag to save on mailing. I truly felt blessed to still have my mom – and surely blessed when I unwrapped a smiling snowman dish from my mom, that I truly know I am blessed to feel that love. It’s a trinket thing but given in real love. (and it is a serving plate too – to serve up some love and joy and jollyness too)I am holding quite a few people in my prayers these days who recently lost their moms. I also know other strained family relationships which are broken down in strife and tears, which adds to blue Christmas times. Truthfully, it’s a hard Christmas for many. Forgetting feels easier than forgiving. And so with humbleness we are to appreciate our family moments that do actually come together. We also cherish peace and cherish those family-to-us friends and neighbors whom God has blessed into our lives. We appreciate relationships that don’t become “needs” but are appreciated as “gifts”.

And when we do have strife, remember that “Tis the season” to please do give forgiveness – especially as Grace comes from on high, “Tis the season” to actually put aside any pride. Life is too short to hold onto anything remotely snide. 

“Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me…” rings as song against worldly wrong. 

Sounds easier to say than do, but to actually give the gift of forgiveness, even if it is for the benefit of others, to “make nice” especially as the new year rings in, is a healthy partnership with the Lord in making peace. We also can realize that the human disappointment we feel IS from the human side of us, humanness which is ingrained into us by our brokenness. So in sharing and resharing DIVINE forgiveness, we could emotionally feel more free and be the children God is preparing us to be…

I pray us peaceful moments and time to reflect this season. Better to be in God’s Courts where He fills them with righteousness and love than anywhere else.

It is DIVINE to re-gift the best gift from God – forGIVEness. FORGIVENESS.

Amen

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Psalm 65 NKJV – To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song.

Praise to God for His Salvation and Providence

Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion;
And to You the vow shall be performed.
O You who hear prayer,
To You all flesh will come.
Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions,
You will provide atonement for them.
.
Blessed is the man You choose,
And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Of Your holy temple.
.
By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us,
O God of our salvation,
You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And of the far-off seas;
Who established the mountains by His strength,
Being clothed with power;
You who still the noise of the seas,
The noise of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
They also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid of Your signs;
You make the outgoings of the morning and evening rejoice.
.
You visit the earth and water it,
You greatly enrich it;
The river of God is full of water;
You provide their grain,
For so You have prepared it.
You water its ridges abundantly,
You settle its furrows;
You make it soft with showers,
You bless its growth.
.
You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance.
They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
And the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are covered with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.