So our lives seem to be going a million miles a minute these days! We have been busier than ever with Christmas parties, dinner appointments, school, preparing for this new…
So our lives seem to be going a million miles a minute these days! We have been busier than ever with Christmas parties, dinner appointments, school, preparing for this new baby, taking naps (just me and SOMETIMES Lucy), friends, church, baking, last-minute shopping, trying to slow down, family time, date time, Lucy time, starting new Christmas traditions, and I could go on, but you get the idea. I keep telling myself that since today is the last day of school for the kids until the New Year, and since there is only a week until Christmas, things can start to slow down. At least we are staying home this year. That will help. I can’t complain though. We are happy and blessed to have so many opportunities that we have been praying for for a while. This is a WONDERFUL time of year and there is so much hope and love in the air! Oh how blessed we are to be able to remember the Savior Jesus Christ more in our lives because of this time of year! I think of what my life would be without Him. It would be meaningless, without purpose, and completely without hope. Because of Him I know that this life isn’t the beginning or the end, and that the mistakes I make, the things I do wrong don’t have to be the end of my peace and happiness. He can mend anything that is broken, including you and I.
“If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended.
In Nazareth, the narrow road, That tires the feet and steals the breath,Passes the place where once abode The Carpenter of Nazareth.
And up and down the dusty way The village folk would often wend; And on the bench, beside Him, lay Their broken things for Him to mend.
The maiden with the doll she broke, The woman with the broken chair,The man with broken plough, or yoke, Said, “Can you mend it, Carpenter?”
And each received the thing he sought, In yoke, or plough, or chair, or doll; The broken thing which each had brought Returned again a perfect whole.
So, up the hill the long years through, With heavy step and wistful eye,The burdened souls their way pursue, Uttering each the plaintive cry:
“O Carpenter of Nazareth, This heart, that’s broken past repair, This life, that’s shattered nigh to death, Oh, can You mend them, Carpenter?”
And by His kind and ready hand, His own sweet life is woven through Our broken lives, until they stand A New Creation—“all things new.”
“The shattered [substance] of [the] heart, Desire, ambition, hope, and faith, Mould Thou into the perfect part, O, Carpenter of Nazareth!” 19
May we all, especially the poor in spirit, come unto Him and be made whole.”
And so may this season remind us of the hope that He gives.
