- Who can find a virtuous woman? her price is far above rubies
- She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness
It's that time of year again. The silly season when we easily get so caught up in the prep work--cleaning, cooking, decorating, buying gifts, wrapping gifts, going to work parties and club parties and church parties and church services and family gatherings and on and on and on..that we forget the "Who".
No, not the "Who" down in "Whoville".
The real "Who".
As in, "Who are we doing this for in the first place?".
"Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and mete out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
"Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?" Isaiah 40:12-13
You know. THAT "Who"
For unto us a child is given. Right?
"Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no beauty of comeliness: and when we shall see hime, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah
56:1-6
I love this time of year--cooking, the decorating, the presents, the lights, the busy-ness. But as I catch myself being overwhelmed by my inablity to do more and to be more, I'm trying to remember to take some time out to remember who my "Who" is. Not just during advent, but whenever I found myself distracted and caught up in the whirlwind that is life.
He's my "Who". Who's Your Who?
Until next time...
