Hello Everyone,
I can hardly believe that Christmas is just about here – that is, until this morning when I looked out and saw the frozen precipitation letting me know that winter has arrived, even if not officially!
Yesterday as I was driving down my street, I saw a house that had come alive. Alive because it was empty since the owner passed away. Now a new family moved in and the house had candles in the windows and everygreen wreaths hanging from each window as well. It looked fresh, new, and alive again. It was the most beautiful house that I’d seen, simply for that reason.
The Lord started me thinking about evergreen wreaths. They are circles – no beginning and no end. His love for us will never end.
A wreath is fresh, green, alive. His love for us is new every morning. It is alive in us.
A wreath is fragrant. The Lord’s fragrance infuses us.
This season, as we see all the wreaths in windows, and hanging on doors, remember His love and rejoice!
Merry Christmas and have a Happy, Healthy, very Blessed New Year!
Blessings, Evelyn
Dear Ev,
I know that house too and my thoughts were the same as yours and I thanked God for the new life in it. Love your wreath analogy and I will only think of wreaths in this way from now on. God Bless You and thank you for seeing our Lord in everything! Your messages are truly uplifting. Merry Christmas.
Love,
Vicki
Dear Vicki,
Thank you for confirming what I felt as I passed this house. You are one who has the heart of Jesus and I am so glad you felt it too. Thanks also for the kind words about the wreath analogy. Sometimes the Lord has to just shake us from our busyness to see things through His eyes. I wonder how much I miss?
Blessings, Evelyn
Thank you for this beautiful devotional about Jesus love and wreaths. How timely to read this today. We just put our wreaths on our double doors. God’s love is new, fresh, and alive every morning.
Blessed Christmas, my friend.
Linda
Dear Evelyn,
Your message made me thing of the two houses across the street from us that have been empty and for sale for a long time. They remind me of that old poem, “The House With Nobody In It”. A house is just a house when its empty. I yearn to see it become a home again…lights on, people, children, a dog…life! It would be so nice to see candles and wreaths in the windows. God bless you for your good word today.
Dear Linda,
Thank you for responding. Sometimes God speaks to us in the simplest way, through a wreath. I just now also thought of the candles in the windows – and Isaiah 60, that we should let our lights shine. Jesus, Yeshua is the Light of the world! Merry Christmas!
Blessings, Evelyn
Dear Maude,
Thank you for responding. Yes it takes more than brick and mortar to make a house a home! Sadly there are many houses that have been empty these past few years. I pray that in this New Year, they will all become homes.
Blessings, Evelyn
And I, too, know that house and your analogy is a beautiful one! God bless you at this beautiful Christmas season and always, and thank you for bringing God’s goodness alive with your inspiring words!
Dear Marlene,
Thank you for your kind words. There’s just something about that house now that touched my heart – I’m glad you saw it too. May the Lord bless you and your family this Christmas and throughout the New year!
Blessings, Evelyn