Around the holidays, when I’m preparing crafts for the kids, there is always one thing I must do with them that always brings a smile to the little ones’ faces: glitter! Whether it is a gold glittery leaf for Thanksgiving or transitioning to Christmas making a silver snowflake, there must be a craft or two with glitter! Glitter allows our hands, clothing, and floors to be covered and glistened with reflective light. My hands would be covered in it, and even though I would provide paintbrushes, the kids wanted to sprinkle every piece of paper with sparkle, and I couldn’t agree more! The mess was extravagant, but the results and memories were worth making. When I think about how God created me and formed me into who I am today, I sometimes think it must have been a beautiful mess.
But every fine piece of glitter meant something, and one thing everyone knows about handling glitter is that it gets everywhere and sticks to whatever it is around. You can’t escape it. I want the glitter that God gave inside me to be contagious and to stick with those who need hope in aspects of life that they can’t understand. I want the light of Christ to be seen inside and outside of me until someone asks, “What is this joy you have?” And my response can be that it’s Jesus. Jesus created us to be in His image, and when I think of that, I think of His hands creating me, molding me, and His fingerprints all over me because I am His, and He is mine.
Every day, we have the opportunity to leave a little glitter behind. Something for people to notice. Something people can be curious about—something that when they see you, there is something glistening about you. And whether you speak or merely smile at that someone, you share the Lord’s joy—fingerprints you cannot see, but they are everywhere because we do things by touch. We can touch someone’s life and leave a fingerprint of hope, joy, peace, and much more through the Lord’s guidance.
It might be messy.
It might require leaving your comfort zone.
It might mean going all in without knowing the outcome.
But it is worth the mess! It could be the moment or memory that inspires someone to make a change.
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