ecially remember days when I was young or being full and exciting! One in particularly was Christmas. It came with much much hoopla...It wasn't until after I really got to understand what Christmas was all about after I got saved at 19 years old. Until then, it mostly was a time like most everyone celebrates...gifts, entertaining, making cookies, and a time when people try to give good will to one another...only by what they have to give. Most people really take little time to understand the real meaning and our family was like all those others...Pomp and circumstances didn't really happen until Christmas Eve..Back then, nobody did anything until Christmas Eve, except for waiting in those long lines at the department store to visit Santa Clause to request your deepest desires... The store windows claimed beautiful moving scenes, full of snow and animated characters on sleighs and skis.. Elves and sparkling designs of trees, snowflakes, and snow scenes. . No decorations, no Christmas music, not anything having to do with Christmas until the day actually came!! My father would go out to buy a tree on that day, the day of Christmas Eve and hide it!!...Presents were very mininmal and stockings always had an orange in the toe. Gifts were few and usually there were no more than one or two things under the tree for each person. But it seemed my parents went all out and bought us more...The most fun of all was when you went to bed early on Christmas Eve and then their work began, tree decorating, train set up, presents wrapped and put under the tree...When I woke up on Christmas morning it was like a dream come true!!! The tree sparkling with aluminum icicles, lights, bubble lights, and multi colored balls of shiny glass...Under the tree a small manger scene placed upon a platform of our black engine smoking train set!! Little houses, roads with cars, people and stores..all in minature...What a wonderful sight!!... We all woke and came out to admire the transformation of the living room we once knew!! Now, smelling like pine and displaying some of the most beautiful items...sparkling and shining in this little room!!!...I can recall getting a huge stuffed little girl with elastic straps on the feet. These straps attatched themselves to your feet and you danced with her...She was as big as I was. She had a blue polka dot dress and yellow yarn hair..with a matching hat..and painted face!!! Another gift I remember so well is a Mammy Yokum puppet...you worked her with strings attatched to wooden slates that made her walk. She had hard ceramic shoes that made a clicking sound when she danced on top of the table..Red and white striped legs and she had a smoking pipe in her mouth.. Another one I remember so well is my furry white cat...it look like a real cat with real hair. It had green glass eyes, a pink nose and whiskers...I carried that cat everywhere and smelled the fur until it was almost bald...Don't ask me where all the other fur went, no doubt up my nose!!! Anyway, didn't seem to hurt me any!! Memories are wonderful, good ones...ones you store up in your mind and recall when you want to feel the comfort of good times...But, those memories are only memories we make...and hold on to for comfort...My Bible says, that Jesus is the Comforter!! and I know, there have been many times in my life when the only comfort I can find is the kind He provides me...anytime, anywhere!! He is mine, and I am His!!!
Friday, October 15, 2010
MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS GIFTS
ecially remember days when I was young or being full and exciting! One in particularly was Christmas. It came with much much hoopla...It wasn't until after I really got to understand what Christmas was all about after I got saved at 19 years old. Until then, it mostly was a time like most everyone celebrates...gifts, entertaining, making cookies, and a time when people try to give good will to one another...only by what they have to give. Most people really take little time to understand the real meaning and our family was like all those others...Pomp and circumstances didn't really happen until Christmas Eve..Back then, nobody did anything until Christmas Eve, except for waiting in those long lines at the department store to visit Santa Clause to request your deepest desires... The store windows claimed beautiful moving scenes, full of snow and animated characters on sleighs and skis.. Elves and sparkling designs of trees, snowflakes, and snow scenes. . No decorations, no Christmas music, not anything having to do with Christmas until the day actually came!! My father would go out to buy a tree on that day, the day of Christmas Eve and hide it!!...Presents were very mininmal and stockings always had an orange in the toe. Gifts were few and usually there were no more than one or two things under the tree for each person. But it seemed my parents went all out and bought us more...The most fun of all was when you went to bed early on Christmas Eve and then their work began, tree decorating, train set up, presents wrapped and put under the tree...When I woke up on Christmas morning it was like a dream come true!!! The tree sparkling with aluminum icicles, lights, bubble lights, and multi colored balls of shiny glass...Under the tree a small manger scene placed upon a platform of our black engine smoking train set!! Little houses, roads with cars, people and stores..all in minature...What a wonderful sight!!... We all woke and came out to admire the transformation of the living room we once knew!! Now, smelling like pine and displaying some of the most beautiful items...sparkling and shining in this little room!!!...I can recall getting a huge stuffed little girl with elastic straps on the feet. These straps attatched themselves to your feet and you danced with her...She was as big as I was. She had a blue polka dot dress and yellow yarn hair..with a matching hat..and painted face!!! Another gift I remember so well is a Mammy Yokum puppet...you worked her with strings attatched to wooden slates that made her walk. She had hard ceramic shoes that made a clicking sound when she danced on top of the table..Red and white striped legs and she had a smoking pipe in her mouth.. Another one I remember so well is my furry white cat...it look like a real cat with real hair. It had green glass eyes, a pink nose and whiskers...I carried that cat everywhere and smelled the fur until it was almost bald...Don't ask me where all the other fur went, no doubt up my nose!!! Anyway, didn't seem to hurt me any!! Memories are wonderful, good ones...ones you store up in your mind and recall when you want to feel the comfort of good times...But, those memories are only memories we make...and hold on to for comfort...My Bible says, that Jesus is the Comforter!! and I know, there have been many times in my life when the only comfort I can find is the kind He provides me...anytime, anywhere!! He is mine, and I am His!!!
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