Be Still and know that I am God, Psalm 46:10

I'm trying to learn to be still but it's a challenge.

Blaze however, seems to have mastered it effortlessly with her stuffed little buddy here.

This past week was a hard one. We enjoyed Thanksgiving with Emil's side of the family and it was nice to get together but thoughts naturally turned to missing Kai and that was difficult. I am so thankful for Emil and the love that we share. He is amazing.

On Friday I pulled out the Christmas tree and put it up. (We'll trim it tonight for family night.)I pulled out the Willow Tree Nativity that I gotten over the years and put it up on the bookcase. This is where it's gone every year and I do so enjoy seeing the different nativities that I have being displayed that way come December.

I space them out and arrange them just so.(Evenly spaced over the three sections. Shepherds in the left section, Wise Men to the right and Mary, Joseph and Jesus in the center.) It always occurs that one of the little kids will rearrange them and then I have to come back and do it over again. This year I was thinking that it wouldn't be a problem since it was usually Kai that I would discover rearranging.

Later on that night, when I was visiting with a friend, Noah caught my eye. He was busily cozying everyone closer to Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the Nativity.

It seems that children of all ages always want to see everyone in the nativity as close to the Christ child as possible. So for the first time I'm not rearranging the nativity. I'm trying to be still and know what my 9 year-old Noah already knows. We all should want to be as close to Christ as we possibly can be.