Day 12 of 21 Days of Prayer | Christmas Eve

 21 days of prayer | praying in the new year & traveling through loss

Day 12 of 21 Days of Prayer

| 24 December 2023 

Christmas Eve

Yesterday we watched Christmas movies on repeat and listened to Christmas movies (again that’s planned for today). Last night we went into town to see Christmas lights and walk around. Then at home I helped wrap Christmas presents and set them under the tree. 

My youngest brother is three years old and is just at that age where Christmas becomes magical. The tree with its many shining lights, glittering glass bulbs, photographs, and ornaments hovering on green branches. Paper chains and snowflakes decorating the house. Presents wrapped in wrapping paper with little bows and names written on them. Christmas movies and music playing all through the season on repeat. It’s most magical when you are little, like three. 

Today, we started Christmas dessert and dinner prep (like Thanksgiving). We took a walk in the chilly weather, my baby sister asleep in my arms. I got to talk to friends wishing each other a merry Christmas. We alternate listening to Christmas music or watching a Christmas movie. Currently we are watching White Christmas while I bake cinnamon rolls to be ready in the morning (we are sleeper-in-ers so we usually have things prepared the day before XD). 

This is a bittersweet season of time. Sweet because it is Christmas, my baby sister’s first Christmas, my littlest brother is so excited, we are celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and good things are coming. Bitter because this is our first Christmas without Grandpa. 

I’m trying to feel it all and be okay. Okay to be happy. Okay to be sad. Okay to be thankful. Okay to cry. Okay to feel. And all the while I’m also trying to remember the reason for the season—the birth of Jesus—and keep that my focus. That is why I’m thankful. That is why I can feel joy. That’s why I’m here, alive and breathing. That’s why I can have a heart full of peace and love while having  a broken heart. 

I am so thankful for God! I’m so thankful for Jesus coming down and saving us! I’m thankful for Him. I love Him! 

Well, I’m off for tonight. We are going to have dinner, watch the Nativity Story and do our annual tradition of The Shepherds Hunt. Tomorrow I’ll be sharing one of my FAVORITE Christmas memories. See you soon! 

Merry Christmas Eve! 

Here is the post I did about my Grandpa’s passing: 

https://fablerosemc.blogspot.com/2023/12/with-father-grandpas-passing.html

What I read in the Bible…

• Psalm 49
• Psalm 50
• Isaiah 59
• John 7 

“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: 

“My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.” 

—Isaiah 59:21 

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,

and they shall call his name Immanuel” 

—Matthew 1:29

Previous days: 

• 21 Days Of Prayer 
• Day one | praying for specifics and to be a light for God
• Day two | praying for my future husband  
• Day three | processing…
• Day four | check ins and journal entries 
• Day five | seeing God in EVERYTHING + the crashing waves of grief
• Day six | feeling SEEN in the Psalms
• Day seven | Feelings muddled under the surface of my skin
• Day eight | rejoice always 
• Day nine | I feel like a little girl. I feel lost. Surrounded by rubble. 
• Day ten | God connects stories
• Day eleven | talking about what’s been happening…Grandpa passing

God bless us, every one 

If you think to pray for me and my family I will be forever grateful! If you have a prayer request or need please comment and let me know! 

Merry Christmas Eve! <3 

Love, 

Moriyah