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Merry Christmas

As I shift my focus to the finishing touches on a couple new collections, and family celebration during this wonderful season of hope, this will be my final post of 2011 -

 

wishing you all a blessed and Merry Christmas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

warmest wishes,

The Perfect Christmas . . .requires courage

 

but offers the gift of grace for imperfect circumstances.

 

 

 

In my line of work,

beauty

the perfect image, and

perception

are valued. 

I suppose each is subjective in the eyes of the beholder.

I wonder tho, what it is about perfection that we are drawn to? Is there some kind of false security waiting for us there?

Far less than perfect circumstances challenged a very pregnant Mary and Joseph as they traveled by foot in the dark cold of the night to meet their obligation for the census count. I cannot help but wonder how challenging this was for them and the courage required to make this fateful journey.

So many families right now are faced with their own set of less than perfect circumstances as we usher in this Christmas season, and I wonder how each is fairing and from what source each is drawing their courage for the journey.

This beautiful image conveys a perfectly appointed home decked out and dressed up for the Christmas holiday. I love it, I am drawn to it, I want to walk though the door and I imagine you feel the same. But, like being surrounded by people at a holiday party, yet feeling alone, I wonder how safe and secure, how real it feels once inside.

This, is not my home.

This year is the very first my home is not yet decorated to celebrate the season. Not one single Christmas decoration is unboxed, unwrapped, nor hung.

We, my friends are one of the many, many families  faced with less than perfect circumstances this Christmas season. While I am blessed to know reasonable success with my work, the TV/film studio my husband works for has cut back, layed off, and repeatedly reduced hours of many of its employees creating very real hardship for many, instead of entertainment. Our home will soon no longer be ours - it is just a matter of time now.  

My focus, and my engergy right now are in taking on one challenge at a time, hoping, praying, and putting ALL my faith in God fulfilling His promises to me. This is, I think, my most trying test of faith in my life because it concerns not only me, by my children. I am placing myself, and my children in His hands. But unlike the human hands I’ve known, His know how, and are capable of holding me, and my girls where we need to be held.

Where will the road lead?

Much like the night Mary and Joseph embarked on their journey, they were met with most imperfect circumstances, yet they made the best of their situation, settled into a stable for the night and unexpectedtly ushered into what the world  has come to  know and celebrate as thee most perfect birth of God's one and only son, Jesus Christ -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 giving us a most perfect gift of hope.

My hope, my prayer, my gift to you is that if you do not know this story of hope, of courage, of the gift of faith, that you make time to receive and open the gift. This gift is filled with all the grace and all the courage you will ever need to hold you as you embark on your journey.

And the angel said, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. ¹¹ Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. ¹² This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

 

 

 

The perfect Christmas offers the gift of grace for imperfect circumstances and hope for a future -

On behalf of Terri Conrad Designs, from my truest heart, I wish each and every one of you a blessed and Merry Christmas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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