Wrapping Paper

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement

Wrapping Paper

Rolls of gift-wrapping paper in bright reds and greens beckon to us from store displays, alerting us to prepare for the impending holiday. Next the festive paper rests under our Christmas trees concealing the contents of presents for the anticipated holiday. I wonder how many miles of  lovely papers are ripped off with excited exclamations throughout our city on Christmas morning, The once smooth paper with its designs of angels, reindeer, candy canes and other Christmas symbols will soon decorate floors all over town with festive crunched balls and floating scraps of paper, destined for the trash bin. The usefulness is over and our attention is focused instead on the content of the gift.

 

What is there in our lives that gets our focus like wrapping paper? We put our attention on it, but discard it later to focus on something else. In spite of the frills of the Christmas season and the daily routines and busyness of our regular lives, Christmas is a good time to evaluate what thinking patterns or activities we can rip away, ball up and toss aside in order to focus on the amazing gift of Christmas—the birth of the Christ Child. Jesus came to earth to give us the astounding gift of salvation. The joy of Christmas is a small reminder of the joy He desires us to experience in our daily lives because of the promised joy of living forever in the presence of our God. A marvelous gift indeed. Worthy of celebrating.