I love cooking this time of year.
Crock pot stews and soups are my favorites – comfort food that warms you to the soul level.
Recently I was cooking some soup for a family dinner. My new Love Came Down soup cups and tureen had arrived in the mail and I was excited to put them to good use.
And so I chopped and sauteed vegetables while thinking of Love coming down to earth as a baby 2,000 years ago.
My mind drifted to Mary and what it must have been like to carry the Son of God.
And to Joseph and what those nine months must have been like for him.
And of course to that night in the stable. The birth. Those first moments as a family.
{Makes me think of the Joy Williams’ song Wish…}
It’s funny how often I meet Jesus in the kitchen. Maybe it is the methodical tasks that free my mind to wander to the holy. Or maybe it’s the tangible messages of love and grace on the dishes stacked on my countertop.
No greater love than Jesus.
Yes. This.
I want to drink that message this Christmas season in the same way I drink deep the hot broth of my vegetable soup.
So deep that it fills me to the soul level and makes me burn with a passion that can only be the Holy Spirit in me.
I love having reminders of the why of the season around my house.
Don’t you?
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