Round two of guests leave this morning, so now before Round Three shows up, it will be undecoration day today. My decorations went up the day after Thanksgiving and so now that Christmas is over, it is time to move on. I love decorating for Christmas, but I have to admit, undecorating does not carry quite the same level of excitement. I do like the clean surfaces and less cluttered corners when the Christmas villages and trees and wreathes and stockings and pine boughs get neatly stashed away. It is just a lot of effort and always a little sobering.
As always, I leave out the little clay creche Asherel made me one year. It sits on the piano all year to remind me that the promise of Christmas is still there, is always there, though at times hidden away such that it is easy sometimes to forget it is there. Behind the little holy family is a tin church with a candle inside. A silver cross is hung around the steeple. That one little scene says it all to me, and so it will sit on the piano that my son used to play, once filling our house with music. Both help me keep the joy of family and Jesus in my heart, the memories of what once was with the hope of what one day will be.
Psalm 55:22 (NIV)
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
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