Candles On My Table: I start laughing just thinking about it........

Candles on My Table

As our family gathers around the Christmas table each year, there is a crystal candlestick for each family member....each unique....each with its own charm and character....each casting light far beyond the table.

Each candlestick has been etched and shaped by the heat and skill of its craftsman. Likewise, each member of our family has been intricately designed and fashioned by the intentional hand and heart of our Creator. Each life gives off a glow that illuminates our world. Each glow magnifies facets in the prisms of each other as it shines.

As each of our children has chosen a spouse, and as each new life has grown our circle, the collection of crystal candlesticks grows, the glow expands, and more of the world is brightened. The light we each offer is unique. The combined glow of our family is one.

Matthew 5:15 says: "Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl, Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone..." We trust God to take our lights (both individually and as a family) and let them be as vs. 14 says: ...a light of the world. As a city on a hill can not be hidden, may our family's light not be hidden.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

I start laughing just thinking about it........

Why do I get tickled and start giggling when I read and reread this note on facebook from Judy:

"We just got your plane tickets from Phuket to Bangkok and then the train tickets from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. Do you want to sleep on the top or bottom on the train? "

If you know us at all....Judy and I on bunk beds on a train at nighttime?? I wonder: "what do they do with silly adults on sleeping cars on trains in Thailand?" Stay tuned..........

1 comment:

Jon and StephanieMay 14, 2009 at 10:51 PM
I love that you are starting this! I will need to add it to my favoriates so I can share in this journey! Love you!
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