Welcome to the feminine podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks so much for joining me today.

We are down to the final Christmas crunch time, ladies, and I hope you're

ready for game time. I'm getting there. But I believe with Christmas

preparations, there's always more we could do, right? And it's always best to just stop somewhere.

So it seems timely to talk about Christmas contentment.

First, you know, Christmas is our high feast along with Easter.

It's a very big deal for the Christian faith that we're celebrating the advent of Christ, our Lord's birth. So it is totally

appropriate to be making a big deal of it and making lots of preparations, but we just don't want to lose our focus on the point.

That's why I thought, let's just talk about Christian contentment.

And remember, it's a deep satisfaction with the will of God. And so at Christmas

we're so thankful to be his children and grateful that we know the author of this

story and that he is written in every detail in the Christmas story.

He's also written in every detail in your story, in my story. And we don't live in a haphazard chaotic world. We live in a world governed by God's good

Providence. And so we can view even our own little or big celebration of Christmas as under his sovereign plan and

according to his good purpose.

And this, knowing this, just frees us to simply enjoy the fruit of all our labors of preparation.

And it enables us to accept and be content with even the things we didn't get done,

or the great ideas that we failed to think of in time or we

failed to execute plans that we thought would be so great. So let's determine right

now not to just have a fun or successful Christmas celebration,

L is determined to have a humble heart, a sweet attitude, and a contented spirit.

Because at Christmas, God did something really big so let's not be

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