Merry Glitter To You

Acts 13:49 -- "And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region."

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Into the humid night breeze we released a swoosh of hot air heavy laden with the smell of cinnamon and pine. Once we made it through the doors of our local Michael's we all took a deep breath and cleared the Christmas from our lungs. That familiar aroma IS one of my favorite things about this season, but let's face it - a little bit of cinnamon enriched pine cone goes a long, long way. And it never fails to start my husband's eyes to watering - profusely.

As we walked toward the car that we'd parked in the grand ocean of other cars - we all looked at one another and broke out into a contagious laughter. We sparkled like those vampires in the Twilight movies. My three men began to shake and brush and do everything but strip right there on the sidewalk in an effort to escape the glitter. They didn't even touch a single thing while we were in the store and still managed to come out covered in tiny colorful sparkles.

Of course, the glitter doesn't just stop at the door of the store. At home we find it EVERYWHERE. It's on the cats, in the carpet, in our hair. AND when I opened the dishwasher to put the dishes away what do I find? More glitter. How does it get into the dishwasher after the wash cycle has run? .... and don't even TRY to explain how I leave the house with clean underpants only to discover glitter all over them when I end the day with a shower.

It boggles the mind with shiny little flickers of light.

But - it does inspire a thought. 

All the non-Christmas days of the year find us a little less coated in tiny particles of color. 'Tis certainly the season to sparkle. But what if we could spread the sparkle so efficiently when it ISN'T Christmas? What if we were able to spread the Word of God like Christmas glitter - so very thoroughly through all those non-glittery seasons?

That would be shiny, indeed.

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Just think about all those moments when you notice a single particle of Christmas glitter stuck to something to which it was surely NOT originally intended to stick. What if we did that with the grace of Jesus Christ? What if - on a daily basis, as we go about our normal routines - we dropped little sparkles of God's True Light here and there? Maybe it sticks to our shoes and we leave some of it in a friend's house. Or maybe it's on the sleeve of our shirt and rubs off on a passer by in the grocery store. Maybe it shakes from our hair or falls from the open door of our cars.

Wouldn't that be something? People through out the world around us would go home to take showers and discover hidden little gems of God's truth tucked away in unexpected places.

Can you imagine how far we could spread the Word of God then?