Dear friends, please excuse my lack of presence here on my blog and my lack of visits to your wonderful sites. Much has been happening in our family. Please lift up a prayer for my grandfather and all my family and friends on the homegoing of my beloved Nanna. She went home to be with Jesus just two short days ago. She is truly Home for Christmas.
Below is a reflection I wrote twenty days before my grandmom's Heaven journey. I included it in my Christmas letter that I am sending to family and friends. I pray that you will know true and lasting joy found through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
For an expanded version of this writing that includes thoughts on grief and sorrow during the Christmas season, please click here for my site called Anna's Place. For those suffering during this time of year, please know that God truly cares. He is our Comforter and Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father - our Prince of Peace.
Christmas blessings to you all and I look forward to visiting your sites again in the New Year.
Love,
Susan
Below is a reflection I wrote twenty days before my grandmom's Heaven journey. I included it in my Christmas letter that I am sending to family and friends. I pray that you will know true and lasting joy found through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
For an expanded version of this writing that includes thoughts on grief and sorrow during the Christmas season, please click here for my site called Anna's Place. For those suffering during this time of year, please know that God truly cares. He is our Comforter and Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father - our Prince of Peace.
Christmas blessings to you all and I look forward to visiting your sites again in the New Year.
Love,
Susan
Everlasting Joy
by Susan Kelly Skitt
12-3-09
Joy - what a bright and cheery word! How often I’ve used it to express my feelings about life’s happy moments. Thoughts of joy spring to mind when as a child with sleep tousled hair I would thunder down the stairs on Christmas morning. Gasps of joy would erupt when I saw all the brightly wrapped gifts sprawled under our glistening evergreen.
Joy came that first Christmas over 2000 years ago, packaged not with bows and ribbons, but in human form fashioned with God’s hands of mercy and compassion. God has come to earth to save the souls of man, woman, and child alike. He has given a gift so priceless and perfect that I cannot contain the joy it brings – a joy that transcends mere earthly happiness found in life’s fleeting moments – a joy that lasts forever because it is found in the person and presence of the Son of God, the God-Man, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Joy – a celebration of life given to this world – experienced by the ones who willingly receive the gift - the fulfillment of what awaits the soul who trusts in the real joy-giver – Jesus. Joy – everlasting joy!
Joy came that first Christmas over 2000 years ago, packaged not with bows and ribbons, but in human form fashioned with God’s hands of mercy and compassion. God has come to earth to save the souls of man, woman, and child alike. He has given a gift so priceless and perfect that I cannot contain the joy it brings – a joy that transcends mere earthly happiness found in life’s fleeting moments – a joy that lasts forever because it is found in the person and presence of the Son of God, the God-Man, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Joy – a celebration of life given to this world – experienced by the ones who willingly receive the gift - the fulfillment of what awaits the soul who trusts in the real joy-giver – Jesus. Joy – everlasting joy!
