January 6, 2012

• On the 12th Day of Christmas…

  *Many Christians celebrate the Epiphany in remembrance of the wisemen arriving to worship
   and bring gifts to the Christ Child. I like how Ann Voskamp applied it to my life today:

  “Epiphany, it means “the manifestation of God.”
  
  Where did the God-Child reveal Himself but in the barn and this is the grace: Our God manifests Himself in our mangers and muck, our mundane and mess.
  
  Ours is the God manifesting Himself in the unlikely and unbearable, in the surprise and the second-chance. The God Who bears the burdens and brings the hope.
  
  And when what we really needs is an Epiphany in all the dark — doesn’t the epiphany begins simply by seeing the light of God everywhere? Maybe what the New Year needs more than resolutions is a fresh revelation of God?”
  
  
  

           

   

  
  

  I found God’s radiant light and joy
  later in the morning while photographing the storm surf
   He had created miles away from our coast
  AND
  in the fellowship of with other Laguna locals
  also out with their cameras at the same time.

  *No Epiphany Open House this year, too warm and Bri was busy, so I called Sharon Crowley
   and we met at an outdoor cafe for lunch. We talked and talked, two hours flew by. We home-schooled our together so we love catching up with what our kids, now young adults, are doing and how these have changed over the years.

  *Next I went to Staples to purchase much needed book calendars, one for my photography business and the other for our family/life dates. I need a hard copy to look at daily or I’d forget things!

  *Since I had to drive right by Jenny’s home, I dropped by unannounced, and got to see all their sweet Christmas ornaments and enjoy the smell of their tree which had dried out in the heat we’ve had the last week. David was cuddled up on the couch and when Bob arrive home from work he gave me a back rub just because.

  *I then stopped at Aaron Brother’s to purchase frames at the 2 for 1 sale, before crossing the parking lot and shopping at Trader Joes….I fell to temptation and bought a box of Peppermint Joes too!

  *Such a full day. Spence and I later enjoyed watching old movies on TMC by the light of our Christmas tree.  Thank you Father God.

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