Lump in my Throat

Absolutely Broke my Heart

Written by Cameo Smith,  Mt. Wolf, PA:

Twas' 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38

when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven's gate.

There smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air.

They could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there.

They were filled with such joy, they didn't know what to say.

They remembered nothing of what happened earlier that day.

"Where are we?" asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse.

"This is heaven." declared a small boy. "we're spending Christmas at God's house."

When what to their wondering eyes did appear,

but Jesus, their savior, the children gathered near. 

He looked at them and smiled, and they smiled just the same.

Then He opened his arms and He called them by name.

and in that moment was joy, that only heaven can bring. 

Those children all flew into the arms of their King

and as they lingered in the warmth of His embrace,

one small girl turned and looked at Jesus' face.

and as if He could read all the questions she had

He gently whispered to her, "I'll take care of mom and dad."

then he looked down on earth, the world far below

He saw all the hurt, the sorrow, and woe

then he closed His eyes and He outstretched His hand,

"Let My power and presence re-enter this land!"

"may this country be delivered from the hands of fools"

"I'm taking back my nation. I'm taking back my schools!"

then He and the children stood up without a sound.

"come now my children, let me show you around."

Excitement filled the space, some skipped, some ran.

all displaying enthusiasm that only a small child can.

and I heard him proclaim as he walked out of sight,

"in the midst of this darkness, I AM STILL THE LIGHT."

Christmas Cookie Chaos

Yesterday was Rachel's annual day for excess use of sugar and butter. A little flour was added merely out of formality. There were a few duds in the start. A pirouette type thing turn out to be much more difficult than in the brochure. A rolled layer cookie from the fridge bombed bad. I woke up to Rachel trying to chip them off the pan. What made this difficult is 'log' was coated in Nerds before cut into cookies and then baked. Nerds melt. and then turn into cement. I spent about an hour chipping and salvaging as much as I could. Rachel admitted defeat, but they tasted great and I didn't want them to go to waste. We, mostly Rachel, continued the bake-fest through the afternoon. Seven total variations in total were baked. Christmas tree cookies, star cookies, cut-out frosted, dipped Oreos, dipped Animal Cracker Balls, Whoppy Pies, and the failed Nerd cookie pieces, dipped, and covered in Nerds. Chaos from the beginning to the end.

The Whoppy Pie marshmellow fluff gave us such fits we pitched the rest of it. Soooo.....


I played with it.

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