It’s the last Five Minute Friday of the 2012. I’m linking up with Lisa-Jo and hundreds of
other amazing faith sisters (and maybe a brother or two) today. We’ll let our fingers fly for five minutes
without the pressure of getting it right.
No editing (ok a few spelling goofs), no over thinking – just fun. Then, because encouragement is a superpower,
I’ll go read and comment on the post linked up before mine – and many
others.
Here are my five minutes on: WONDER
You forget how it can be new every year. After all, can’t you just sit back in a
chair, close your eyes and picture it all lit up – even in August. But to a small child, it’s right there on
their face.
The first time the lights
are plugged in and the hands are pulled down from the eyes.
Wonder!
The mouth is open – to taste the peppermint and sweetness
of the holiday that is floating in the air.
The eyes are two full moons with the darkest black hole
centers taking in every twinkle and sparkle and glitter.
The ears are perked.
They are listing for the slightest jingle of sleigh bells – even though
it will be weeks.
When does this wonder start to fade? Is it in the long lines at the stores?
Is it in the traffic that Will. Not. Move!
What about the wonder in the everyday? Have we become so dulled to the wonderful
that we need a spectacle to behold it?
Would we have beheld wonder in a dirty stable and a poor
unwed mom’s little baby – or looked on in pity?
Where is my sense of wonder now?
Time.
11 For unto
you is born this day in the city of David a
Savior, who is Christ the
Lord. 12 And this
will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped
in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." 13 And suddenly there was
with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God and saying,14 "Glory
to God in the highest, and on
earth peace among
those with whom he is pleased!" 15 When the angels went away
from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over
to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made
known to us."16 And they went with haste
and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying
in a manger. 17 And when they saw it, they
made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. 18 And all who heard it
wondered at what the shepherds told them. 19 But Mary
treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. 20 And the shepherds
returned, glorifying and praising
God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
Luke
2:11-20 – ESV