Merry Christmas, my friends! It’s Holy Christmas Week

Good morning from the lakeside deck ~

You can look at the same sky day after day and see beauty you have never seen before.

Jesus asks us to pray ~ Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1Thessalonians 5:16-18)

Many times, we need to stop and take time during our day to observe the world around us. We simply never know what we might see in our daily lives.

Many times, it is only by our “close” seeing and listening that we find what we might not have seen before, even imagined, or considered—all in quiet reflections or finally, a prayer we say out loud!