Expectations

Oh Sisters.....It is Christmas Eve morning...the snow is falling...my heart is unsettled....yet I trust Him.

I have been praying for the families I know and even the ones I don't know that are desperately wanting to be together for Christmas but are separated by thousands of miles waiting to come home...

Expectations....We don't expect things like this. A neighbor's wife passing away...a family grieving....It's not what we imagine, when we think of Christmas.

Our expectation is that things have to be a certain way for us to have a good Christmas....I struggle all the time with my own expectations of what I think things are supposed to look like or be like in order for them to be good or right. Many a birthday or holiday or celebration has been ruined by the tall order of expectations in our minds...

I am learning that the only thing in this world that is worthy of our expectation is Jesus Christ.

It is His gift to us.

The weather...the airlines...the post office...our husband, parents, children and friends....they're not going to meet our expectations...we can't even meet our own expectations...

But Jesus...He's different...

He is our Joy.

So...."I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you
with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to his power that is at work within us,
to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

Ephesians 3:16-21

Precious sisters...May the Joy of Jesus be the Light of your Christmas and may He hold you tight in His arms as you trust your heart to His.