Lilly, you beat me to posting a first meaningful post... awesome. I will drop a comment onto your comment after I get mine done.
As I read the first two days, my first thought was that I don't like choices all that much. Maybe I'm just not that good at making them. I went to Subway yesterday... that's where I ALWAYS go if I go out for lunch. I ordered the same sandwhich I ALWAYS order when I go there and got the same beverage I ALWAYS get to wash down the sub. At Q'doba I always order the same thing and at the Pita place and at Mexican Village and even at Teaberry and Starbucks. Man, I am a full creature of habit. Do you thrive on choice or live in habit???
However, as I thought about choices and talked with others about what I was reading, I did realize that it is super easy to project our moods (day one reminds us that often our mood dictates what we buy), our desires and wants, and our own personal opinions or ideas about right and wrong onto God. It is tempting to make God be an entity that we want Him to be for us so that He can serve us in the ways that we think best. But so many Bible verses tell us about how God's knowledge so far surpasses our own that it is uncomprehinsible. He knows us and what we need so much better than we do (Yikes... so cliche, sorry). His view of life is so much bigger and broader and deeper and less tainted than our own.
Day 3 makes a cool move away from how we shape God to fit our mold toward how He comes to us saying "Let me show you who I am." I am very excited about how these Christmas Conversations will unfold over the coming weeks and how God will show Himself to us.
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