-Lord, I want to fully live this day that is before me in Your presence. I want to live it through Your Power and Your Joy...which is my strength. 

+Joy to the World, the Lord has come! I have come for you! I have come to you. It is for perfect, exhilarating, Love-filled freedom that I have come.When you see your much-beloved Christmas lights...think of every tiny, shining light as a life rescued from the darkness. Be my little Christmas light. Be My Christmas song. Let your life be a Christmas Carol declaring Joy to the World. This was the Joy set before Me as I faced that first Christmas tree. This is what I purchased when I became the first and eternal Christmas gift. Daily unwrap your gift. Study the instructions...the Word. Give yourself away. Give Me away everywhere you go. I am the Gift that keeps on giving. I am transforming you. Rest in the sweetness of My Unfailing Love.I know everything you're going through and if you rest in Me...you can learn many lessons of Joy. Don't look at the past. Don't hold on to the things you think you can't live without. I can put windows in your soul with better views...more expansive and penetrating Light than you have now! Do not fear tomorrow. I've got that covered. Live today in the warmth of your Perfect Father's Love. That's ALL you need. The Holy Spirit will take care of getting you from here to there...from beginning to end. It's His job and He loves it! He loves to begin a good work in you and enjoys being faithful to complete it. So...in this season of frenetic racing around and the intensity of preparing to shed this beloved life and step into a new one...continue to seek to rest and to rejoice. Every minute of now can be lit from the light of eternity. You don't have to wait to die. "Pass through - pass through the gates. Prepare the way for the people. say to the ends of the earth, 'See, your Savior comes. See, His reward is with Him'." (Isaiah 62:10) This is who I want you to be...a living, Christ-bearing Christmas carol, singing Me with your whole being.