His Blessing

What do you want for Christmas? I honestly have nothing to contribute to this conversation. The things I want I cannot afford. Those same things you wouldn’t want to break your budget for me to have. It isn’t that I don’t want anything, I do. I could make a list that is literally pages long with no end in sight. The question is, will that keep my babies safe, or heal my wife’s eye? Is it the very thing that will fill me with endless and eternal joy? My garage is currently overrun with things that are fun, convenient, and pretty. The problem with this is that I cannot even park a car in it. I don’t love music; don’t have an endless passion for guns or want for all the latest gadgets. The truth is, I am old fashioned. I love hand crank ice cream makers (I have four), old radios that don’t ever really come into tune (two of those), old fans that will cut your fingers off (two or three of those, I can’t remember) or an old pick-up with that old pickup smell (Olga). How bout old Coleman stoves and lanterns (about four or five apiece)?

What do you want for Christmas? I want to hear the voice of the One that this holiday is named after. I want to know the Word like the back of my hand. I want to think of the right thing to do before I do the wrong thing, not after. I want to see the power of God unleashed in my life. I want to see my children walk with the Lord better than I did. I want to hear my kids laugh out loud around the table, and to see them run and play with joy from being fulfilled by a mother and father’s love. I want my children to want and hope for the things that are not of this world, but out of this world!! This is what I want for Christmas. These things you cannot give me. These things can come only from a disciplined life and the Lord working in it.

What do I want for Christmas? I think if we look around we will find that we have already “received” so much. For instance, I just recently went to Houston (training for a job) turns out the list of blessing was quite long. First, the family I stayed with was just great (Coulter’s). Second, seafood, seafood and aah, seafood. Third, I got to play the role of tourist and visit the Gulf of Mexico and NASA (I saw a rocket longer than a football field. . . how neat it that?! Truth is, I think at this point, I would rather see my family’s eyes light up when they experience some of this. We have blessings happening all around us all the time. Do we really want to get caught up in WANT? Question is, do we see it, the blessing I mean?

I have already been blessed enough on this earth for a few people and a few lifetimes. I have walked, eaten and laid eyes on amazing things; while others have only wished they could experience them. God has blessed me with things that man cannot give, His blessing. This is what I want for Christmas. His Blessing!!