A poem… 

Vintage Eyes

It’s not an old but new insight,

What you see with your eyes.

And it is all special,

Sometimes even a surprise.

For your sight has an old soul, 

So gaze at the world from your vintage eyes.

Then see anew, the Light of the Lord, 

His Unchanged Light is for us to newly realize.

Even with vintage eyes…

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Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

Recently I was helping a friend get her tree out of the garage, heavy but we were simply rolling it then carrying it by grabbing the white wrapped sheet. Two people easier than one and we got it done. I held the front and she held the back. Then as we stood it up (the weighted tree stand already attracted), we immediately started sliding the white sheet and lifted it up off the top. We had motions of knowing what to do and just then I had a Flashback – I had a Flashback – but not to my history but to ancient history that my soul connected to – I realized we were doing the reverse wrap of what Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathia we’re doing. They wrapped up the body of Jesus after death, and we were unwrapping this tree of Christmas, breathing life into the Christmas season and situation of the moment, and sighing of accomplishment. We both could be weary of the Christmas prep OR we could be strengthened by the mission of Christ. The completion of burial was but a pause before the JOY of Jesus Forever – the unwrapping of Christmas in our own special way was a forever moment in advance. This surely rang true in my soul as we were friends not just of this earth, but faith friends forever by the power of the Lord. We were in the midst of the Lord in His work of preparation. 

From where and when Jesus was laid to rest, we know He rose. And from where He went into Heaven, we know He will come again. Our hearts do prepare Him room now by the HolySpirit, our hearts now open up a vintage soul of knowledge as the Lord has set all of eternity in us, and our hearts can find His peace. Now known, our eyes must be those that SHINE that TRUTH. Our hands to motion in His mission. Our vintage eyes hold a mystery of the Lord unveiled in our souls. What a wonderful Christmas gift He gives us, knowing Him. Immanuel, God with us.

So let us prepare Him room by unwrapping the trees, the gifts, but especially our souls for us and for others to know His Love. Let that Love shine…

Merry Christmas eve…

May we be prepared in our hearts,  above all else.

Amen 

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He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecc3:11

John 1:4-5 

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 19:38-42

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus. And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews’ Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby.

Luke 1:49-55

And Mary said:

“…For He who is mighty has done great things for me, And holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation. He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has put down the mighty from their thrones, And exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty. He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy, As He spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed forever.”

1Peter 3:15-22

But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits – to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.