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I mentioned in an earlier post that I am in charge of planning the women’s activities for our church group. This past Tuesday was our Christmas Party. We gave each of the women one of these as a little Christmas gift.
They are brass skeleton keys meant to represent the Innkeepers Key. The innkeeper who said there was no room at the inn for Mary and Joseph in Luke 2 from the Bible. I included a quote from one of our church’s apostles, Elder Neal A. Maxwell. He said that “each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.”
The women can then remove the key from the paper and place it onto their ring of keys so that they could see it and always remember that they are the only one who can unlock the door and let Christ into their life.
I also included a poem to go along with the key which can be used as a bookmark.
The poem is called A Prayer For December:
Dearest God,
Please never let me
Crowd my life
Full to the brim.
So like the keeper of Bethlehem’s Inn,
I find I have no room for Him.
Instead, let my heart’s door
Be ever open,
Ready to welcome
The newborn King.
Let me offer the best I have
To Him
Who gives me everything.
–author unknown
For those of you who celebrate Christmas and believe in the Bible, this idea is really universal. It would make a nice simple and inexpensive gift for a neighbor or friend.
Since I already have these all made up, in the spirit of Christmas, I have provided them for you to download and print for your own use. For the poem, click here. For the key tag, click here. I purchased my keys (which are sold in a pair) here. Please feel free to change them to suit your own needs!
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Chong Sung Ting says
This is such a nice idea!
I've been reading your posts for a while and I really admire your creativity, and also the way you manage to be a testimony to His love in such a gentle way!
I am truly encouraged =]
Thanks for sharing,
sung ting
Wonderful idea! I love your blog and check it everyday. You are AMAZING!
such great ideas! keep em coming :) thanks!
Amy,
I LOVE this!!
I'll be using this unique idea for Visiting teaching and as to add to neighbor gifts. Thanks so much for including the printables!
Very nice! I would have loved to attend that activity!
I love it! Perfect lesson handout!
This is such a great idea! Thank you.
Another great idea!
I love your blog- keep it up
You have the best blog ever. I love all your ideas. You have a special gift of creativity and generosity. I will pray that you are richly blessed. Thanks for sharing your gift.
Love this idea!!!
LOVE this idea! I've already made arrangements to use this for next year's December RS meeting. I even passed it on to my MIL and her sister (both RS Counselors). Thanks for sharing and making it so easy to do!
I absolutely LOVE this! Not only at Christmas time but a reminder each day to always have room for Jesus!
I not only LOVE this idea, I ordered the keys and plan on doing this for my church, my husband and I teach Sunday School and for Christmas we're doing a presentation. So at the end of the play I'll have the children hand these out to the church.
wonderful!
thanks for this! I posted a link on my blog!
http://jenniferfrazeewhitcomb.blogspot.com/2009/12/idea-room.html
I found this idea through "Christ centered Christmas". I absolutely love it. I am going to give them to the YW in our ward for their gift this year. Thank you so much for sharing and have a very Merry Christmas!
Wow—-Just at the right time….
I was out of town the weekend you posted this and have been running full steam ahead ever since. Church fellowships, school functions, family parties, Christmas cards… We never got the outside lights up this year and I just said a few days ago, "It just doesn't feel like Christmas without them."
And today I was scrolling through my dashboard and this blog caught my eye.
"Thank you God for always putting us first, even when we fail to do the same for You! Thank you for the opportunity to bond with women of faith all over the country. Bless Amy and her family."
Hi Amy – Just wanted to let you know that I used this idea this year. I also created a printable card for the key which is available for anyone on the blog.
Thanks so much for the great ideas! Come check it out here http://capcreations.blogspot.com/2010/12/inn-keepers-key-with-printable.html
Such a great idea. I would love to recreate this for the girls in my small group this coming Christmas. Thank you for sharing this idea. Btw, love you blog.
Admiring the time and effort you put into your site and in depth information you provide.
It’s great to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same outdated rehashed material.
Fantastic read! I’ve saved your site and I’m adding
your RSS feeds to my Google account.
The link to the key tag for “each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.”
is no longer there. Do you still have that? I’d love to use this for my RS lesson on the 23rd and found some great deals on keys on Etsy.
Nice blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A theme like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make
my blog shine. Please let me know where you got your design.
Thanks
I am truly grateful to the owner of this web page who has shared
this fantastic piece of writing at at this place.
I was unable to open the files for the InnKeepers poem and card. Can you send it to me in an email please?
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This website was… how do you say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something which helped me.
Thanks a lot!
Too bad they took the poem down you already had made up from the link you provided. I know it has been years ago that you posted it, but I would have still liked to have seen it. I do hope the poem you posted here was the one in the link, so I can make my own version. Thank you and God Bless.
That is too bad! It was the exact same poem…I just re-typed it!
i really like your key idea. I have also read your December prayer. Fell in love with that also. Thank you very much for sharing. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
I absolutely love this idea! Thank you so much for sharing! Where did you find the cute rings to hook the keys to the paper? Thanks!
I am desperately trying to download the poem and key tag but it won’t let me. Is there any way you could send me a direct link for both?
Makenzie- The link is no longer working. Sorry. The poem is on the post though. You can just copy and paste that into word. So sorry!