Props of Life ~

Prop

prop someone/something up

provide support or assistance for someone or something that would otherwise fail or decline:foreign aid tends to prop up incompetent governments

It's Christmas Eve and I'm enjoying my morning coffee thinking about

those in my life that are not with me today.

My parents also known as Marge and Ray, Nanny and Pop, Chuck and the Old Skate :-)

They provided me with much assistance and support through the years.

My siblings who were always with me on Christmas Eve, now celebrating each with their own families.

My oldest son and his family are spending Christmas in Michigan this year,

I'm taking this time hour by hour....it's tough to think of them elsewhere.

They provide me with, among other things, two grand daughters that fill me with joy

no  matter the errors of this world....

I will have my youngest son this evening, and he and his girlfriend as well as two of our

friends joining us on Christmas Day, I can't wait!

So what do we depend on when what were used to is gone?

Are we then alone?

 Not this girl....

I'm experiencing a more complete dependence on Christ,

it is He after all that forever props me up, provides assistance when I might otherwise fail.

I may not have all of those I love this Christmas Eve, as I have become accustomed to in my life...

but I do have someone who is always with me.

Jesus....the reason for this season.

Above is a manger scene in a shoe box, my oldest son made it in 2nd grade

that I display every year. :-)

Jim McGuiggan, wrote;

Hmm, something to ponder, no?

Consider what he writes,

" When we have no other props-like "sufficient" money in the bank, paid up insurance, a steady job,

better than good health, a devoted family, and loads of friends- we then discover just how assuring

Christ can be.  My guess is that we rely on these other fine blessings from God,

 and thus they work us harm.

Wasn't it the Christ who said that the eye or the hand or the foot might sometime offend us?

These fine blessings from God might have to be put from us before we really enter into life-not just hereafter, but now!

With all the lovely props all gone or nearly gone we will be thrown back onto the Christ as our 

solitary means of support.  Maybe then we''ll find, as countless thousands through the years have found, that Christ  is altogether grand and comes to mean more to us than before.

With the props gone, we have the opportunity to rejoice with joy inexpressible and glorious".

Hoping you each have the gift of a true relationship with Jesus, 

when all props are gone, know that He is always present.

He is the present !

~

Regardless of your beliefs, surrounded with loved ones or not, 

I wish you  a Merry Christmas !!

Thoughts of my family are what echo in my heart today.....