Thanksgiving....

I usually begin decorating for Christmas on Thanksgiving Day while Chris is watching football, but this year I began a week early. I'm having a double baby shower for 2 friends in our Sunday School Class the Tuesday night after Thanksgiving, so I have to be decorated and done. Now, I just have to CLEAN!! I was putting some of the decorations on the floor of the guest room until I could think about where to put them. One was a handmade nativity I bought a few years ago to support foreign missions. It has become the boys' favorite nativity and they play with it every year. Thatcher had been playing with this set last week. When I walked into the room to get it, I couldn't help but notice how he left it.



I have a Jim Shore nativity that I absolutley love. Moments before I had finished placing it "just right" in my dining room. I wanted to be able to see the wisemen's faces....wanted the animals turned out....Mary goes on this side....Joseph on the other....I wanted it to "look" right. That is where I focused my energy. My 5 year old "fixed" his nativity so it would "be" right....with all eyes focused on baby Jesus.
I could seriously write a book called "Everything important I ever learned, I learned from my children". God simplifies it for me, because He knows me inside and out. I'm thankful for so many things. I'm thankful that God knows me inside and out. I'm thankful He speaks to me many times through my children....and I'm thankful that my 5 year old son knows that the Christmas story isn't about looking right on the table...it's about JESUS! How much simpler can you get?!