Shine Again: Winter Days

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Winter Days

As much as I would prefer to sit barefoot on my front porch sipping iced tea each evening while watching the kids run through the sprinkler, there are a few things I look forward to each winter.

Hot tea
Enthralling books
Quiet snow
Long baths
School delays
Time to imagine and create
Homemade soup
Basketball
Family and friends
Homeschooling
Cozy covers and a snugly Sean
Birds at the feeder
Bundling up the kids and sending them out to play

What do you enjoy most about winter?

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"...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Do everything without complain- ing or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing...." Philippians 2:12b-16

I often want to be the one to do big things for God. This verse reminds me that it is in doing the small things well and without complaining that I can be most useful to Him. So when I'm taking care of the sick and sweeping up the floor again and just got sauce on my only white shirt and somehow managed to drop a box of crayons down the dryer vent and my friend is hurting and my child is frustrated with school and I really don't feel like I can answer one more question.... I remember that this is my time to SHINE AGAIN.