Sane, Simple, Sacred: It's All Over but the Shoutin'!

It's All Over but the Shoutin'!

The stockings are stuffed; gifts are wrapped. It's all over but the shoutin'!
Tonight is our Candlelight Service at church.
Tomorrow we'll spend a quiet day with my mother and father and sister and her family. We'll have soup and grilled cheese sandwiches and play a LOT of table games.
Sunday after church, our three children and eight grandchildren will arrive. That's when the SHOUTIN' begins!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

9 comments:

Wanda.....December 24, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Your gifts are beautiful in that little red wagon Rebecca. Have a wonderful joyful Christmas with all of your family.
Love,
Wanda
ReplyDelete
Replies
Donna's Book NookDecember 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Tonight is our vespers service as well. I love your creative packages--no such wonderful artistry with mine.

Enjoy all the time with your family. The immediate Gisel family is getting together on Saturday--that's when Amy and I present our secret project! It's been fun.

Blessing and peace from the Prince of Peace. Donna
ReplyDelete
Replies
Simply ShelleyDecember 24, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Sounds like a blessed Christmas Day is in store...enjoy your family and God bless....
ReplyDelete
Replies
DarlaDecember 24, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Merry Christmas (and a Happy Birthday!). Love the ornaments on the packages.

Darla
ReplyDelete
Replies
Sniffles and SmilesDecember 24, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Merry Christmas, dearest Rebecca...and much joy to you and your family!!! With much love, Janine XO
ReplyDelete
Replies
DianaDecember 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Wishing you a lovely and Blessed Christmas Rebecca. Love Di
ReplyDelete
Replies
elaine @ peace for the journeyDecember 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Mine will begin somewhere along 9:00 PM tomorrow night... when the kids are down for the night and the revelry finished. Perhaps, then, I'll be more inclined to a silent pause and inward shout. Right now, I've got to get four children, plus myself, ready for church and some quick dinner.

Looking for Peace in the midst of it all...

Enjoy your evening and day tomorrow!

Merry Christmas.

~elaine
ReplyDelete
Replies
JereleneDecember 24, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Love the red wagon full of presents :)
Much Love, Jerelene
ReplyDelete
Replies
RebeccaDecember 25, 2009 at 5:02 AM
Jerelene, Merry Christmas to you. I got over to your blog and saw your Christmas post (it was lovely, by the way) but I couldn't leave a message. I felt so bad, because I wanted to let you know I've missed you and am glad to see you back. I'm sure hoping either you check back here - or that one of our mutual friends will let you know I'm trying :)
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

"We simplify, not just to be less busy, even though we may be right to pursue that. Rather, we simplify to remove distractions from our pursuit of Christ. We prune activities from our lives, not only to get organized, but also that our devotion to Christ and service for His kingdom will be more fruitful. We simplify, not merely to save time, but to eliminate hindrances to the time we devote to knowing Christ. All the reasons we simplify should eventually lead us to Jesus Christ!" (Donald S. Whitney)

Dedicated to my sister-in-law, Beth--a TRUE home manager....

"I work for a King. He has put me in charge of his home. When He comes to see how I have managed His possessions and His children, I do not want to be found wanting. I want to do my best. Everything I have is on loan from Him. I have room and board and a job to do, but it is all for Him. Therefore I want to dress my best and do my best in all my work. I also want to be creative, for this is a sincere attempt to glorify Him and His beautiful creation. How I manage my home is a form of worship to Him." --Lydia Sherman

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contentment makes poor men rich.

-Benjamin Franklin

"What I am gradually discovering is that in the writing I come in touch with the Spirit of God." ~ Nouwen

~~"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."~~Edmund Burke

C.S. Lewis: "To trust Him means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in trusting a person if you wouldn't take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him."

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony." William Henry Channing

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Apostle Paul: "But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me alot about living in the immediate moment. I am somehow managing to live one day, one hour at a time." Madeleine L'Engle

FIVE CERTAINTIES
WITH WHICH TO
START YOUR DAY

God holds you. Each day he carries us in his arms. Psalm 68:19 NLT
God sustains you. THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. Psalm 23:1 AMP
God covers you. He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust. Psalm 91:4 AMP
God pours His love upon you. Through each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me. Psalm 42:8 NLT
God will not fail you. The unfailing love of the Lord never ends! Lamentations 3:22 NLT

THE BLOGGER'S PRAYER Lord, help me to learn to spell without spellcheck, manage to visit all that visit me, and post regularly - all in 5 minutes a day, so that I can clean house and take care of my family. Help me to not look at every occurrence in my life as a blog post, and to quit taking pictures of weird things to share as well. Please Lord, help me to stop talking about my blog friends as though they are next door neighbors or someone I have known all of my life. And help me, dear Lord, to think of something witty and wise to post tomorrow.
Love, The Dust Bunny Hostage

Sane, Simple, Sacred

Mercy

It's All Over but the Shoutin'!

9 comments:

Writing a Song a Week #3