As I look out our picture window I see the colorful lights of the Holiday Spirit reminding me that this a joyous time. I look south to our sliding door and I see the front light reflected and looking forward I look into our fish tank and see the Holiday Lights on our tree. I am completely surrounded by the spirit of the season.
History has provided us a season to reflect on the goodness of man, Thomas Moore, Saint Nicholas, Jesus, Moses and those that wrote and sang the carols and songs of the season.
History and tradition are nice gifts to place on paper, stone and silicon.
It is 35 degrees here in Marion Kentucky. It is dark out and yes we still have the remnants of snow in our shaded north faces.
Mom was off yesterday and she fed the children, washed clothes and slept in her chair exhausted. She loves the company and will never turn it down. Having family over is a required taste that spiritually lifts the body higher into a chaos and bliss experience. Perfectly marvelous is a good word to describe the Holy Days of the year.
I did learn that Little Sister is an artist. Whether she will pursue that is of no concern at the moment but the fact remains she can do what she wants with any tool provided and that is a gift.

If You Are a Human Being You Have to Understand

That if you look closely you will see thing that happened yesterday that were amazing. One example this morning is seeing Younger Brother in his pajamas. Just 24 hours ago they were too long. Kitten Yarn cut the sleeves and pants and stitched them back together at the proper size for little brother to wear. The word is dexterity, our ability to knit.
Our skillful ability to knit, to move yarn around into patterns of cloth.
Dexterity our ability to move bodies of humans around as pawns, skillful weaving bodies with minds into armies of motion.
Dexterity the ability to open a tube of toothpaste and skillfully layer the paste onto a brush without thought.
Dexterity our basic ability to run around a tree and stop and think out our next move,
or move through the woods without thought or harm.
We can gracefully move our lips, hands and feet over an instrument of sound
and create emotional sound that can carry a pattern of thought with wonderful splendor.
Dexterity the ability to read four objects at a time while pounding the keyboard of a computer,
making sense or nonsense, whatever prevails?
We have conquered the past as we move into the future. We have learned that we can move and shape our future.
Good or bad?
There are a lot of variations in between those extremes.
Every morning you have to understand, to see the world around you and understand what we have accomplished, it's worth a prayer.