Decorations....

We were sitting around the office yesterday planning our Christmas party for Friday and, well, it just didn't seem like Christmas to me. So I told Rachel that we needed to decorate the office to make it feel more like Christmas.

"You want me to go to the Dollar Store?" She asked.

Now this girl can shop, ESPECIALLY at the Dollar Store, so I readily agreed. She wasn't gone but an hour and back she comes into the office with what seemed like a ton of wrapping paper, a GIANT stocking and a mind filled with imagination. So for the next two hours we created a Christmas environment unparalled in our community. (OK, maybe I'm overstating that just a little!) Even I joined in on the action, creating decorations that, well, would go well in any trailer home in the U-S-of-A!!!! In fact, I felt like I was five again, mostly due to the quality of my work! Lots of heart, zero skill. You know how it goes.

But quality was not at issue here, only the spirit of what we were trying to accomplish. I wanted to make sure that our clients, friends and even residents of offices around ours would discover some new Christmas joty that might have been lost in the hurly burly of Merry Mall-mas!

Of course, I had to have music, so I dialed up Christmas with the Cambridge Singers and we sang as we cut, taped and created. Ding Dong Merrily on High was heard throughout the hallways of our fine building. There were other songs, Joy to the World, What Sweeter Music, For Unto Us a Child is Born, you know, the classics. But best of all, we were giving, giving something we couldn't buy - our creativity, our imagination.

As I hung the last candy cane on the door, I was pleased with what I saw. It sort of reminded me of something I heard once ... And the Lord looked at all he had made and said this is GOOOOOD!" Giving is good, giving of yourself is GOOOOOOD!

Happy last minute shopping!

Joyeux Noel!