I wanted to download some pictures from Christmas to put on my blog and facebook, but realized there are very few and none of the kids actually opening any of their gifts. I was so busy opening packaging, installing batteries, making sure there were no little hair brushes or other toy pieces in the discarded wrapping paper and then disposing of said paper, that there was not a free moment to take a picture. I am the youngest of 4 children and I always thought that the reason my parents had very few snapshots of me growing up was because the things I did just wasn't new and exciting to them anymore, since they had been through it 3 times before. But now I realize that when there are more kids there is just always more to take your attention, so there is less time for things like taking pictures. So, even though I loved watching my kids open their gifts, all I have is pictures of them playing with the gifts after the wrappings had all been sent down to the garbage. But as I sat watching them laugh and play side by side, their little golden heads and sparkling eyes together, I realized that a picture wouldn't really capture the feeling of us being a family on Christmas morning and that one day in the future, I will hopefully get to look at them sitting side by side on the couch as adults watching their little golden-haired, sparkling-eyed kids open their presents.
Surprising as it may seem, this reminds me of yet another Sara Groves song. I really don't write my entries to purposely coincide with her songs, it just seems like my life coincides with them...And I hate to say that there will probably be many more to come, because Josh just got me the newest Sara Groves CD, along with the only 2 older ones I did not have.
This Peace by Sara Groves
So many words to say, but I'm opting for silence
So many days to live
I thinking I'm sitting this one out
Cause something I've been chasing finally stopped to let me catch it
Something I've been longing for and dreaming about
It's a whisper in my ear
It's a shiver up my spine
It's the gratitude I feel for all that's right
It's a mystery appeal that's been granted me tonight
This peace
It's something so elusive
Something close but far away
It's the home that I can't live in yet somewhere in outer space
And sometimes I barely miss it when I walk into the room
The curtains are still swaying and I feel the air move
And it whispers in my ear and it shivers up my spine
It's the gratitude I feel for all that's right
It's a mystery appeal that's been granted me tonight
This peace
No time to grab a camera
No time to write it down
Just time enough to breathe it in
And linger
It's a whisper in my ear
It's a shiver up my spine
It's the gratitude I feel for all that's right
It's a mystery appeal that's been granted me tonight
This peace
This peace
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