simply glorious...

some days in the hustle and bustle that is life...well, i don't think it really is life.  i think rather it is what we've made of life.  the race if you will...the never-ending race for (insert whatever you'd like here).  but, nonetheless we race.  we hustle, we bustle about in hopes of achieving, finishing, and feeling a sense of success.

i'd like to step back...i'd love to be able to just let go.

let go.

the pressing need to have my children be perfect (or so gosh darn close).  the pressing need to be the perfect wife, to do all and be all.  the pressing need to be a perfect teacher, one who teaches the in's and out's of u.s. history well.  the pressing need to be a perfect dean of students.  a perfect master's degree student.  the list could go on and on.

let.it.go.

recently, i've been drawn to the simplicity of the christmas story.  the simple.  oh don't get me wrong it is a glorious story, but it is simply glorious!

look at mary.  look at joseph.  look at the stable.  look...

and be amazed.  that the hustle and bustle of the word missed the long expected savior.  they longed for him, they needed him, but he came not in the ways that met their expectations.  therefore, they missed him.

look at the shepherds.

look at the star.

look at the simply glorious.

that our savior came, not in the pomp and circumstance of our world.  not to be noticed.  not to draw attention to himself.  but, rather to love us.

love us.

and that is just simply glorious.

so, i need to bask in that glory.  not the glory of perfection and being the best.  but in the glory of a savior babe, who loved me then and loves me still.

let go of all that we long for, the race we run.  and sit, watch, expect the savior to come...and when he does it will be simply glorious.