The holiday season is here! Blogs and magazines are teaming with posts and articles and pictures of delightful table settings and centerpieces. Now, I'd like to pretend that I'm crafty and that I am perfectly capable of putting together a fancy pants centerpiece or fancy pants name cards on beautiful place settings. Perfectly capable. But let's get real. I'm so NOT that person. Better Homes and Garden can tell me as many simple ways to throw together that perfect holiday dinner, but I can guarantee two things: 1) The Better Homes Magazine picture will always look/taste/be better than mine and 2) I will feel like my skills as a woman are completely insufficient. Hold that thought.
Target, Costco, Sears, and every other major retailer boasts lights, easy-to-assemble fake trees, sales on potential presents, and so much more. It's here. Both the delight and horror of the season puts even the calmest shopper in somewhat of a panic. Panic that we'll forget a present for a relative. Panic that there won't be enough food at our gatherings. Panic that there won't be enough money in the bank for this season. Panic that there just won't be enough.
That's an interesting thought, isn't it? That in the land of plenty, there won't be enough?
The terrible part of this season is that so many of us lose sight of what "Enough" really is and what it really looks like. Every ad we see and hear promises that their product will offer us more, will satisfy our desire to have and be enough. Friends, the ads lie. I've shopped enough at Target and Home Goods to know this. Truth. (Husband is a witness.)
The wonderful part of the season though, is that we don't have to believe the lies. We have enough. We ARE enough. When God sees us, He doesn't see our shortcomings like we see them. He sees Christ. He sees our More-Than-Enough that covers every insecurity and every insufficient attempt on our part. That More-Than-Enough not only covers every flaw, but He heals every wound. The toughest part is to believe that's true. We are made worthy of God's love by God Himself.
To open ourselves up to this mysterious love and grace is to become fully alive in Him, accepting His plan for our lives. In doing so, we find what we were truly made for. We find freedom to live joyfully, freedom to love wholly, and freedom to come before the King of all like His children that we are.
This Thanksgiving, friends, let's celebrate the Enough in our lives.
Love to all,
Me
Praise to the Lord,
the Almighty, the King of creation.
O my soul, praise him,
for he is thy health and salvation!
All ye who hear,
now to his temple draw near;
join me in glad adoration!
Praise to the Lord,
who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;
surely his goodness
and mercy here daily attend thee.
Ponder anew
what the Almighty can do,
who with his love doth befriend thee.
Praise to the Lord!
O let all that is in me adore him!
All that hath life and breath,
come now with praises before him!
Let the amen sound from his people again;
gladly forever adore him.
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