Have you been shopping lately? Fall merchandise is everywhere! Halloween, Thanksgiving and even Christmas ornaments are taking over store aisles. We are in the middle of August, Labor Day is next week-end! it’s not even September. Our children are just returning to school after a summer full of activities. This is definitely pushing the envelope for me…Thanksgiving and Christmas ride on the heels of Halloween!
Included in “The Princess Parable Series”, were two seasonal books. “A Royal Christmas to Remember” and “A Royal Easter Story” were written to give our princesses the opportunity to show their true princess character by opening their hearts to others when their lives were being personally challenged and circumstances around them were chaotic.
I am a mom, whose little princesses found their lives enmeshed with ours in a ministry far outside the norm…tangled in the dense jungles of the Darien, living among an indigenous group of Kuna Indians. The village was as remote as you can imagine and the culture far removed from their own. It gave “off the grid” new definition. Reality gripped us daily and our hearts were challenged to reach out for these who had yet to hear the name of Jesus.
Although the girls in The Princess Parable series lived in a palace, the challenges were there Learning to count the cost for the benefit of others was clearly understood and practiced through the teaching of the series and lives of each princess. In “The Royal Christmas to Remember”, the girls are surrounded by glittering gifts, a huge Christmas tree in the parlor, sparkling candles, and a dramatic night sky with one star bigger than all the others!
A sudden rap at the door of the castle puts the girls and the kingdom on immediate alert! Will a marauding band of outlaws ruin the princesses perfect Christmas Eve? Life takes on new perspective when threatened by reality! Alertness is the awareness that we are being stalked by a deadly enemy. “Set a strong guard about your outward senses; these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear.” Wm. Gurnall
As we face the commercialism of the pending seasons, “take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man’s life consists not in abundance of the things which he possesses.” Luke 12:15 Like the princesses, our true character is hanging in the balance of what we focus on and how we see the need of others.
Have a great week!
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
