tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521590477384744893.post8702937328311771568..comments2023-10-16T02:45:14.989-05:00Comments on Just saying.....: How will you spend your Christmas?Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12005695519129502934noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521590477384744893.post-14031811405100913302010-12-29T06:57:34.366-06:002010-12-29T06:57:34.366-06:00Frivolities? I don't know that that's alwa...Frivolities? I don't know that that's always so. It's such fun to spend. To gift. Extravagance in giving and gifting is its own investment. I just don't want it given in vain anymore. I don't want it wasted. I don't want to spoil or ruin. I love to see the joy on a loved ones face... But as I alluded to in this post, I've been introduced to a whole new world. And gifting and giving now has a whole other meaning. Gifts aren't always now packaged so beautifully wrapped, the beauty comes in the eyes that behold it. The hands that so graciously and gratefully hold it. The heart that is quickened and tendered because of its need of it.... not because someone just liked the thing well, thought that they'd like to have it, or wanted it.... but because it was a necessity that too long has been lived without.<br /><br />Yes, Karen, God is doing something in hearts. I told a guy yesterday that I work with that God was raising an awareness like never before... and with it an army. People really do want to spend their lives on something real, something worthy, something really worthwhile, something everlasting that long outlives themselves. Not for their glory, but for God's. We're made to give rather than get. We're made to serve sacrificially. It so very much feels good... it feels right to! We're made in God's imagine.... and His imagine can't help but to.<br /><br />God still has a long way of work to do on me. But I love His effort, His persistence, His wooing and moving and sometimes pushing. I tell Him consistently, "Open my eyes, Lord, I want to see." Because I know in my blindness that I stay so selfish. May He continue until He moves me to be His hands, His help, His mouth, and His feet!<br /><br />Love seeing you here, Karen! Your comments are always encouraging and inspiring.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12005695519129502934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521590477384744893.post-64220379866064055322010-12-29T02:48:05.814-06:002010-12-29T02:48:05.814-06:00Sharon, this is very inspiring! God is doing somet...Sharon, this is very inspiring! God is doing something in hearts to make us see the world as He sees it. My Christmas was much like others - maybe somewhat less extravagant - but in my heart I have been sensing some of the things you speak of here. We have so much - others have nothing; ashamed of spending money on frivolities.Karen's Kornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08136430567543276209noreply@blogger.com