Remembering Whose We Are

Our store bought Christmas tree has a pine cone on it.  

Can you see it there?  We have never had that happen before.

Our tree remembers.

It remembers where it came from; it remembers what it is.  In the midst of Christmas celebration, commercial and otherwise...with the prospect of tinsel, and sparkling lights, and man-made ornaments coming its way, it remembers the forest...or at least the tree farm.

 It knows it is a pine tree.

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Do we?  Do we remember what we are?  Whose we are?  In the middle of a secular culture, a culture that elevates physical appearance and money and earthly acclamation over things that matter, do we remember what we are called to be?  Do we remember what really matters?

Will we hang on, like that single, solitary pine cone,  for dear life... in spite of being tossed about by the trappings and the trials of this world,... to home...to our maker...to Our Lord?
For dear life?

So that we might bring Him glory?

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!  And that is what we are!  The reason the world does not know us, is that it did not know him."

~1 John 3:1

Rest in him.  Nativity is only days away!

Pax Christi,
~Michelle

Oh, and don't forget our headcovering giveaway.  We're excited!   We hope you are too!
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