Peace

Today is December 8, 2018. And there are 17 more days to Christmas. In days gone by my children would have been counting down the days on the advent calendar, reading a devotional out of the advent book and wanting to start our traditional Silly Sandy present give away. Back then I started it to give my children something to have fun with leading up to the day of Christmas. But as I look back I realize I had fun too. Silly Sandy gifts started on the 13 of December and ended on Christmas Eve. It was a spin off of the 12 days of Christmas before Christmas. Silly Sandy always left a note for each day of Christmas for the children to open and read, sending them on a scavenger hunt or finishing a puzzle to find the gift they were to open. And then guessing what was in the package. Sometimes it was candy, sometimes it was goofy like a an ink cartridge in the Christmas tree(Partridge in a Pear Tree). Mostly it was just fun for the children and Silly Sandy and later on Daring Dave. It helped with the hype of Christmas and brought our family together each night for some time around the tree. On Christmas Eve we would all open presents and then read the last day of our advent reading. I realize now it wasn't the silliness or the gifts or the sparkling lights that made Christmas. It was the time spent with family and friends and our savior in heaven.


 Peace -A Christmas Poem

I searched each Christmas for the peace,

They said that could be found.

I searched in all the Christmas glitter.

I searched snow on the ground.

I turned off all the lights at night

And left ones lit on the Christmas tree.

I’d search through  branches and gaze at ornaments

For the peace they said could be.

In all the gifts I would give out

Wrapped in pretty paper and shiny bows.

There was no peace…

Where could it be?

Only heaven knows.

And then one night as I sat in the dark

Gazing at the sparkling tree.

I realized the peace had been there all along.

When God gave his son for me.

A peace from pure and everlasting love

For a sinner here on earth.

God loved so much he gave up a son

whom he knew his fate at birth. 

There is no peace in shiny bows

Or glitter on a tree.

The only peace that I have found

Is the Peace that God gave me.

SK Virtue/2018