Day 11: MASTERPIECE (+ Being Content With What I DO Have)

Day 11: MASTERPIECE (+ Being Content With What I DO Have)

Each day during The PURSE-onality Challenge: "A Holiday-Ready Heart" in October, Untangling Christmas by Karen Ehman and LeAnn Rice, will be our give-away prize!  

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How It Works (via Bullet Points & Videos!)

Day 1: LOVED (+ 2 Vital Questions to Ask NOW)

Day 2: CHOSEN - Making Right Holiday Choices

Day 3: COMPLETE (+ 5 Gift-Giving Questions)

Day 4: PURE (+ Goodbye, Ghosts of Christmas Past)

Day 5: RIGHTEOUS (+ Rituals vs. Relationships)

Day 6: FORGIVEN (+ The Story I Choose to Tell) 

Day 7: FREE (+ 14+ Ways to Enjoy "Free" Holy-Days!)

Day 8: VICTORIOUS (+ Heading Off Holiday Hurts)

Day 9: NEW (+ The Power to Get or to Give?)

Day 10: CONFIDENT (+ 10 Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas)

I was planning to blog about how easy it is to focus on the externals during the holidays: 

• Decorating our homes.
• Wrapping the gifts.
• Dressing our children and ourselves for special events

And I was going to admit that I really don't like decorating my home for the holidays...but I didn't really know why!

Then a couple of catalogs with holiday-themed covers showed up in the mail, and immediately I had my answer:  

When I decorate for the holidays, I focus on what I don't have rather than what I do have!

This realization sparked today's 2-part vlog:

Part 1 talks about the artificial sense of "you need this!" that invades our homes and thoughts during the holiday season.

Part 2 discusses how each of the four PURSE-onalities can switch her focus from discontent to contentment during the holidays.  


(Don't see Part 1 of the video? Access A Holiday-Ready Heart Day 11: MASTERPIECE, Part 1 via YouTube!)

(Don't see Part 2 of the video? Access A Holiday-Ready Heart Day 11: MASTERPIECE, Part 2 via YouTube!)

Today's verse reminds me that I don't need anything external in order to be content. I am already God's masterpiece. 

For we are God's masterpiece. 

He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, 

so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago. 

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

I can focus on what I do have because I don't need anything to make me a master chef (or decorator or dresser or...)

I am already God's masterpiece!


Your Turn!

• How well do you focus on what you do have, rather that what you don't have, in general? At the holidays? 

• How do the holidays usually impact your contentment: increase it or decrease it? Why?

• What do you find tends to cause you an out-of-the-blue sense of "I need this!"?

• Anything else on your heart!

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