Tonight, as I made my way home from Tuesday night's coffee and gabfest. The road, I traveled was brightly lit with Christmas lights and decorations. Oh, what joy I felt as I journeyed home on this path I have taken thousands of times. It is where I grew up. Familiar...oh my, yes! But I love familiar and am not one for change. I have no desire to travel the world or live anywhere else. This is where I started going with my Tomer 43 years ago next month...where I raised my girls and now, enjoy my Grandbabies.
Where, I carry on family traditions. Where, I love my family, serve the Lord and try to treat others kindly, like Daddy always taught us. Oh, how I miss him tonight, for I traveled this same path with him, many times growing up.
So, as I prepare my home for Christmas...I am thankful for this path my life has taken and for a Mama and Daddy who showed me the way...they were the road map of life and this life, has been a journey that I shall cherish always.
Love to all!
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6 comments:
your love is an inspiration!
Beautiful, thank you for sharing your heart.
I too like a familiar path, I don't need a lot of change. Part of that just may be my age, but whatever the reason,there is security in following a well worn trail.
You honor your parents so beautiful in the life you live every day...they taught you well.
I agree, the values passed on to us through generations are well worth preserving.
We sang a song in Sunday School: "Light up the corner where you live."
I think that about says it for me.
And I'm so looking forward to real Christmas celebration.
From felisol
Your "neighborhood" sounds so beautiful. There IS no place like home. I see you have the same background I have chosen :)
I like it both ways, familiar and unfamiliar! With Dave's job we have had to move around a bit, Christmas' spent in Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and now Texas for the past 16+ years! Home is whre my heart is and anywhere Dave is, I am content!
Once, 3 months after we got married, I was driving from Nebraska back to Missouri with Jennifer & Jessica. It was VERY early in the morning, 4:30-ish and I thought of Dave at home sleeping all warm in our bed. I knew at that moment, wherever he was, that was my home!
"It's beginning to look like Christmas!"
Connie
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