Day One was Putting Up Grandma's Advent Calendar. A chore I have typically done late and with perhaps a bad attitude. But this year, it went up on time and both children hung an ornament on the quilted tree. Well, Talia hung the ornaments and Nate directed briefly. Before returning to his other, more interesting play. Then Talia wanted to hang all the ornaments and flipped out when said request was denied. She ended up in her room with the dire warning that she could stay there all night if she wasn't willing to speak respectfully and kindly.
It was so beautiful.
Sometimes I have a really vivid picture of the Lord sitting on the edge of the Lord's throne, just looking down and shaking that Lordly head in that amused, really? way the Lord has.
Probably there are deep life lessons here about how we come to the Kingdom like little children, petulant maybe, but enthusiastic too and for some reason, that's the preferred approach. Probably I could think about that and be comforted and feel wise and successful. Probably I won't do that.
But I will enjoy that the bar for success was so low that I still feel good about our first day of Advent this year. All we had to do was get that wall hanging up. There were no rules about doing it happily, or deeply, or memorizing a Bible verse. It just had to get on the wall.
Check.
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