Every year around Thanksgiving time, I get the urge to crank up some Christmas music (Mariah Carey if you please), pour a cup of coffee, and decorate my home for the most wonderful time of year… Christmas. 🎄

There is no other season that I love doing this more for.  Just something about the feeling of the halls being decked out that fills my heart with wonder and makes me feel like a little girl again. However, without fail every year after I drag all of the decorations out of storage, shuffle through boxes, find the tree, put it up, plug the lights in, and BOOM! 🗯  Wait for it…sheer and utter disappointment.

Every year, my lights never work.

I don’t know about you but it infuriates me!  Completely wrecks my flow.  Now I  have to get out of my jammies and head to the store to replace all of the lights…I mean really?  And this year is no exception.  Honestly, what could possibly happen to them from the time they were unplugged to the time they were plugged in again?  After all, they’ve been in a box the whole time!  And there you have it my friends…the box.

The box is the culprit to dead, burnt out lights that refuse to shine.

So many times we want to put our light in a box.  We want to drag it out on the weekend when we are suddenly more aware that Sunday is on the way.  This is such a limited way to live.  We are the LIGHT of the world.  We don’t have a light, we are the LIGHT.  A light that doesn’t shine, isn’t really light at all.  A light doesn’t perform until it’s plugged in.  Connected.  We have an unlimited power source, His name is Jesus.  Jesus is our source.  He is the ultimate refreshing for lights that have spent too long in a box.  Today, He wants to take you out of the box.  The box of religion, the box of self, the box of the past, the box of boredom.  He wants you to plug into Him.  He wants you to shine.  And as long as you stay connected to him, no one can ever dull your sparkle!