Good Morning and Happy Tuesday. It’s our third Tuesday of December and we are blessed because we woke up to see this new day.
Sometimes the hustle and bustle of the Christmas Season can bring added stress. These Tuesday hugs help you let go of any stress and it renews you for the rest of the week.
So, I pray you can reach out and grab one of these hugs and it helps you smile all day. And share your smile with everyone you meet!
Also, I want to pray a short, simple prayer and send it with your hug. Please pray this prayer with me, believe and receive the blessings I am sending with it.
Dear God, Thank You for another beautiful Tuesday of the week before Christmas Week. We are blessed to be able to celebrate the birth of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Christmas is a wonderful time, Lord. But some of us are sad. Some of us are going through hard times, Lord. Some of us have lost loved ones, some of us have lost jobs, and some of us are feeling hopeless about our future.
We need You to restore us and make us whole again. Only You can do what we need done for us individually and in our families.
Heal everyone who is sick and suffering and restore good, complete health to our bodies. Touch us with Your healing hands and remove cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, lung disease, arthritis, hypertension, lupus, addiction and all other illnesses we are struggling with.
Remove our pains and replace worry with Your peace and calm. Keep us focused on the true meaning of Christmas.
Thank You, Lord, for making a way for us. Thank You for all the jobs and opportunities You are providing to us. Thank You for keeping our families safe and whole.
Lord, we need You more than ever. We need You in every part of our lives. We need You at home, in our workplaces, in our public spaces, in our schools and everywhere else.
I don’t want to be in this world without You, Lord. You stand between us and evil. You stand between us and chaos and You stand between us and worry.
We thank You for Jesus. He is here with us for all who seek Him. And without the miraculous birth, we would be so lost.
We thank You for never leaving us. We thank You for always helping us, for always leading and guiding us, and for always forgiving us.
May we always remember the true meaning of Christmas and never forget that we have hope because You sent Jesus to us.
In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
If you get to a place today where you need a hug, imagine this big, caring hug that I am sending to you! Tuesday Hugs!
Sending you love, Christmas blessings and gratitude from Sterrett, Alabama!
Charity M. Richey-Bentley
happy Christmas to all.
Remember please that;
Jesus is the reason for the
. Season!❤️
This wasjust what I needed to read this morning. Thank you for this special message and prayer. Christmas time is a really hard time for me because it was my Mom’s favorite time of year. She always got excited this time of year and would pull the Christmas tree from the attic and fix it all up. She always made them look like the ones in the department store windows. She also decorated the whole house in Christmas attire too. Placing slays with flowers and garland all around and she always placed a nativity scene on theantle or counter for everyone to see that came by. Outside she adorned the yard and house with beautiful twinkling lights and a family of what she called, her Christmas deer front and center of the yard. I miss those days that seem so long ago. See, she passed away of pancreatic cancer Oct 21, 2017. 😭Christmas just hasn’t been the same since she was taken from us years ago. There’s no excitement or celebration or trimming the tree anymore. Our family doesn’t really see the need anymore. My Mom had always told us it was a special time of year for her. It was a celebration of Jesus birth and with that a gift of new life for us. I know she’s in Heaven smiling down on us all year and guiding us when we need help along the way. I just really miss her so much and I miss all that our family was with her alive and with us each day. She made life fun and exciting, even on an average day. See she brought joy and laughter to us each and everyday by the simple things she would say and do that brought smiles to everyone’s face. And once again I find myself thinking on days come and gone and especially each Christmas season as we approach this very special day ofChrists birth or at least the day we celebrate it on. Memories of Christmas pasts come flooding back to me. All the special memories we shared, even those when we didn’t have much money for gifts and decorations. She always made Christmas time special whether it was in poor times or times of plenty. It wasn’t the gifts or the food we shared it was the good times, the laughs, the smiles, the spending time together that mattered to me. It was the closeness we shared, that special bond that ment the most to me! I miss that closeness my famiy used to have, and the time we spent together laughing and joking and enjoying each other’s company. She made Christmas time and everyday a special time. It was just on holidays but all years long always. She’s the one that shooshed arguing, and disagreements too, she was the peace keeper, and the glue that held us so close together. I know shed want us to continue on celebrating together, but everyone’s got their own family things they are doing or some just have no plans at all. When I ask what the plans are for Christmas dinner and day, they just say ” I haven’t thought about it, we don’t have any or we didn’t make plans this year.” They all agree it’s different without Momma here with us. She was the one that made the celebration and it a special time of year for us all. I haven’t even put my tree up or lights on the house. It’s already been 7 years now that she’s been gone, 7 years of no trimming the tree or baking cookies, or sitting g in the floor cracking and shelling pecans for pies. There’s been no excitement decorating the yards, I wish somehow I could get back somehow, that Christmas spirit she had that made us all a family again, I miss it, I miss them and her. My one wish
not only this holiday season but every day of every year, is that we could come together as a family again, to celebrate the good times, the bad times and even sometimes the tears. I miss being a family, that’s what she made so special, our family was her life and so special to her heart and that was so special in itself. I guess what I miss the most is the closeness we use to share at anytime of the year. We needed no special occasion to celebrate, we would always get together just because we wanted to be near each other and celebrate to love we shared. My greatest hope and wish is that we all could be a family again and celebrate the fact that we are all still here and it would be nice to bring down the tree and decorate it the way she used to do and string the house with twinkling lights and set out the Christmas deer too. And if somebody should look inside a window, they would see us laughing and smiling and eating cracking jokes between us too. They would see a family full of love and laughter with a closeness , not even death could tear apart or bother. It doesn’t matter if your rich or poor or how many presents are put under the tree. The only thing that really matters is the love thats shared and the closeness and bond that we shared as a family. Merry Christmas to your families at this special time of year. Make sure you tell each other you love them , give lots of hugs and kisses to everyone. You never know what the future may bring, but one things for sure is the bond and love a family shared that’s what Christmas time and every holiday is to me.