Today is Friday, December 30th, 2005; Karen's Korner #705
Our daughter, Jamie, and our grandchildren, Luke and Molly, spent a couple of days with us last week, as we enjoyed some pre-Christmas time together. Some of grandma's things are put up a little higher so that almost two-year-old Luke doesn't play with them. But on my coffee table is a small, molded plastic four-piece nativity set: Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, and his cradle.
Since it is a rustic-looking gold, it appears sort of rich. In reality, I paid $1.10 for the set in 1976 when I purchased it at the gift shop in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Jim had his first heart surgery there over the Christmas holidays, twenty-eight years ago. He got home from the hospital on New Year's Day - 1977.
When Luke and company left last week, three of the pieces were there. Baby Jesus was missing! It certainly wasn't the value that concerned me, but the memories associated with it! It's hard to put away something so durable, when Luke would comment, "A baby Jesus!" and carry Him around.
Maybe I would find the missing piece when I vaccuumed. I moved the recliner chair. No Jesus. I looked behind a basket and a stack of books. Nothing. What about under the coffee table? Yes, there He was!
When I picked up the about two-inch treasure, I thought, "This is what Jesus tells us. If we can't find Him (see Him, sense His presence), He asks us to look and He guarantees, we will find Him!" (Matthew 7:7,8)
Have a wonderful 2006!
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