The Christmas Tree and finals are finally over!!! What a great, crazy, busy semester on reflection. As I am sitting it Starbucks drinking a peppermint tea, I am smiling as I think over the semester, what I just read in Scripture, and the fact I am writing again. God is so good and has blessed me in so many ways. I often wonder if I pay Him His due in thankfulness and gratefulness.
First of all, I was a chimney sweep in the Living Christmas Tree at school. It was a blast! The first night, I went looking for makeup to use as soot, and wonderfully, the drama director and friend, Mary, had black make up! So Ben, my good friend and dance partner, and I applied the make up and costumes and here is the result...
We had so much fun and the second photograph is from our opening number. The entire choir, about 45 students, were paired up and the other couples were in the three aisles in the audience. We had a choreographed number to a Christmas medley and Ben and I were one of four couples on the stage. This was my third Christmas tree, but the first time to ever be on the stage, terrifying but a blast. :) The Tree ran from Nov. 29-Dec 3 and we had 9 performances. A lot of work, but worth every bit to bring love and Christmas spirit to others.
Now, I am done with finals. Only a year left of school and I scarcely can believe that's true! But I am totally welcoming the break and am looking forward to it! I am heading home tomorrow for break and Christmas and time spent with my family. I'm very excited. :)
Then as I sat down to read my Bible today, the passage was 1 Corinthians 13. I decided it would be wonderful to update my blog and to share this passage with my friends and readers as we enter the holiday season. Have a very Merry Christmas!
"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13
