Elf On The Shelf

This is one of the 2 pictures on our Christmas cards this year. We are going to mail them out today. But if you look to the right of Sid you will see our little Elf hiding in the tree. This is our new Christmas helper.

My sister, Amy, gave him to the children so we named him Amos. It is a lot of fun. He stays in the house all day and flies back to Santa at night and tells him how the kids were that day. The next day he comes back to a different spot in the house. The kids wake up with excitement each morning to find where he is in the house.

This can be turned into a great life lesson. The lesson that someone is always watching. I plan to use this Christmas Eve as I talk to the kids before Amos makes his final journey to the North Pole. Just like Amos and even more important......God watches us every minute of everyday. But His gift is far greater than what we open on Christmas morning, it is the reason we celebrate Christmas. Jesus came so that we may join God in the home He has prepared for us. How awesome is that?.

I would like to report that Sid and Lillie are acting better and Amos is helping restore a little order, but it would be a lie. The fact is that they are no different than we are. We understand far greater than our children, yet we still daily disappoint God. Look at these verses from Psalms 139:
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

Have a Blessed Day!!!