With Christmas Wreaths on the exterior doors of the home, a larger wreath is displayed elsewhere inside the house. Early in the month I like to have the Nativity Scene displayed before the tree goes up and Seasonal Decor brightens the interior. Usually my Nativity Scene sits on a formal table runner on top of the piano. For a change I'm using this old vintage runner on top of a coffee table.
Before I realized that the runner had butterflies worked into the ends of the cloth, I thought why did whoever made this...put these flaps here on the ends? The Nativity Scene was already resting on the table when my husband commented that there were butterflies on the runner. Sure enough there they were. He told me he first saw the flaps on the runner and wondered why they were there...then saw the butterflies.
Funny how I didn't see the butterflies at first. Butterflies represent New LIFE and how appropriate that the Nativity Scene that holds figurines that represent the Christmas Story sits on a table runner that has a new life symbol in it. Jesus is the giver of LIFE and in Him we can have New LIFE...born anew.
There was no room at the Inn and Jesus would be born in a crude place. Born in a manger. He'd become the LAMB of GOD.
He'd become known as The GOOD SHEPHERD.
He'd become the LIVING water of LIFE. Still is.
Jesus is the great I AM.
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knewest the gift of GOD, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water."
John 4:11 The woman saith unto him, "Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
John 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his chidren, and his cattle?"
John 4:13 and 14 Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
Lord fill us up...we are vessels in need of your LIVING water of LIFE that satisfies our souls and gives everlasting LIFE.
Beloved, Merry Christmas! Be filled.
~Deanna~
