advent week 3: joy

the answer comes quick…christmas is joy!  celebrating our Savior's birth… joy.  right?    but…sometimes shopping, baking, partying, stressing, decorating, making, spending and traveling can become like a tangled web of branches through which we have to search for the light. sometimes it takes me a while to strip away all the stuff that comes with christmas to actually get to a place where i can even start to comprehend the fact that Christ's Father gave His only Son to save us.  there are probably christmases that i have never fully gotten to that point.  


i want my heart and mind to comprehend the wonder of this incredible sacrifice, this undeserved gift.  i want some of that true christmas joy!  please Lord, help me to see, to feel true gratitude and then…to have joy that only comes from You!

i am a seeker…
a blessing hunter
who captures joy
with just one word:
thanks.
~ann voskamp 

wishing you joy!
jane