To tell you the truth.....
I didn't want to.
Seriously, I love the soft glow of the lights. I love how the stockings hang from the mantle. I love the Christmas cards taped to the doorway. I love the sound of the jingle bells on the front door.
But it had to be done.
As we put away or decorations, we do one other thing (and I credit this to a blog post I found online a couple of years ago). We write notes to God. Each member of our family takes a note card and writes a wish, a promise, a goal, something to God.
Maybe we want to read the Bible more. Maybe we want to be more available to Him. Something different for each of us.
We write these out privately. Seal them in an envelope. Place them in our stockings. Pack them away.
The next year as we retrieve our Christmas stockings, we open our notes and share them aloud.
It's amazing to see that we've kept our promises or grew beyond what we wanted. It's almost like giving a Christmas present to God, but He blesses us more.
These notes help give us a purpose for the year. We don't want to look back upon reading the letters and realize that we let God down. We want to live each day intentionally for Him.
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