More Holiness Give Me: Finding Christ for Christmas day 13 (yup, still one day behind but no reason to quit, right?)

Monday, December 14, 2009

Finding Christ for Christmas day 13 (yup, still one day behind but no reason to quit, right?)

Today we learned about the shepherds. Angels came to them in their fields and told them Christ was born. Some ideas I got off the internet and shared with the kids were,

It is nteresting that the angels came to the lowliest of career people. God doesn't care about status. Just what is in you're heart.

God told them not to be afraid. He knew that it would scare them to immediately have a bright light and a visitation. (I am so there on that one! I have specifically stated on more than one occasion, No Heavenly visitors please! I couldn't take the shock of it! Also I saw that huge meteor a few weeks ago. It happened while I was on my knees praying! I saw a big light with my eyes closed and it was like a falling fire ball! So cool but I was like, is the earth ending? Or worse, are aliens visiting?)

I also taught them the legend of the candy cane which is so interesting because I researched it on the Internet and it sounds as if these things just happened coincidentally, that it was never planned to have all this symbolism. Who knows, but I decided to take advantage of it.

The candy cane is in the shape of a shepherd's hook, turn it around and it is a J for Jesus. It is white to represent purity and the red represents the blood of Christ. The three little stripes represent the three wise men and their gifts or it can represent the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Interesting.

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Finding Christ for Christmas day 13 (yup, still one day behind but no reason to quit, right?)

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