Adorenaments

One Advent season tradition we have as a family is our Adorenament ornaments that we hang throughout the month. Every night or two, we take one out of the box, read about it, talk about it, then hang it on the tree. These simple board book style cardboard ornaments each have a picture representing a name of Jesus on the outside with a verse and short description of His name on the inside. Family Life used to produce these, but I can't seem to find them anywhere anymore. I say this because I don't want you all to think this is a plug for something I'd recommend you go buy because I could only find one new set on Amazon, retailing for over $150 dollars!!

But, I digress....

These Adorenaments are one of our favorite family traditions, and I love that each year we are reminded of the names and therefore the nature of Jesus. I love that we are reminded of who He is and why He came.

We have allowed R to pick the "ornaments" in whatever order he chose to this point. He has some that he is wanting to save to the end, for whatever reason. Anyway, the other night he picked two...The Vine and The Shepherd.

The ornaments all open up like a little board book with a description of each. So, The Vine talked about Jesus being The True Vine and we His branches (John 15:5). We talked about how branches need to stay connected to the vine to live and produce grapes. Then, we talked about Jesus as The Good Shepherd and we are His sheep (John 10:11). We talked about how Jesus cares for us as a shepherd cares for his sheep, even if one wanders away.

Then R blew me away when he stated what took over 25 years for me to learn...

Well, mom, I guess our job is just to stay close to our shepherd or our vine, Jesus. We are just supposed to stay close to Him and let Him take care of the rest, right?

Yes, right, my son. (choked up tears!)

Thank you, God, that you are already teaching R about You and what it means to depend on You.