I have always loved Christmas!! The fresh white snow(until I have to go outside!!), the beautiful decorations & ight displays, the old Christmas movies, but most of all I love the music!! That should not surprise anyone!! I love a lot of different kinds of music but especially Christmas music!!The music at this time of year seems more positive in it's message & in it's design!! Even though this is the busiest time of my musical year I still love this time of year!! I love that I can add a little beauty of my own to this time of year!! Every year I look forward to finding out what music we will be doing. I love learning the new music & re-learning the music I have learned before & making even better. Our church Christmas concert is this week-end!! Only a few days left!! The last minute jitters & nerves are setting in!! Will I have it learned well enough? Will I do a good job? Those questions run thru my mind every time but each time it is exactly what God means it to be!! That is just amazing to me!! It never gets old!! Just as God's love never gets old!! Just today I was experiencing some anxiety over a possible medical problem. I decided to turn to healing prayer to help me. I asked God to meet me in the garden of my heart & to put His arms of love around me. I gave Him all of my anxiety & care & asked Him to take it from me. I told Him all about what was happening & how I was feeling even though He already knows these things. I could feel Him wrap His arms of love around me & say, "My child, I love you!! I want you to give your cares & concerns to me!! I want to take care of you if you will just let me." An overwhelming sense of peace came over me!! I feel that I am beginning to understand a little of what faith is. When I gave my concerns & worries to God & told Him that I trusted Him to care for me even if the outcome wasn't what I wanted I think that I began to have a better understanding of faith. The Bible says that "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Heb. 12:1). Faith is being able to believe what God says even if we cannot see how it can happen. Faith is being able to trust unconditionally that God will do what He says. I have had head knowledge of this for a long time but it has taken several years of adversity to begin to come to a heart knowledge. Why am I so stubborn? I guess that it might be that old sinful nature that I just don't seem to be able to conquer!! But with God's help I will conquer it a little more each day!! Merry Christmas everyone!!
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