I posted this pic on facebook today of two of my new Christmas decorations, that I am going to leave out this year. 
This is in front of my living room window facing the front of the house. 

I asked if anyone could see why I decided to leave it out. 

One lady came very close.  Everyone else had great answers and I agree with everything they said.  I was going to respond on facebook and let everyone know my quirky reasoning, but decided to do it on here instead. 

I am not an "angel" person. I have not even really been impressed with this large one after I brought it home.  (I am a "snowman" girl.)

I love the lion and the lamb one though.  After I cleaned off this table I decided to keep the lion/lamb out.  The symbolism of it just grabs my heart. 

Isa 65:17 - 25 (NIV)  "See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.   I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more. 
 "Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. 
 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 
 No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands. 
  They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them. 
 Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. 

 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain," says the LORD. 

I can't wait for this day!!  

Then I was taking down the big angel with the trumpet...and I thought...oh my...the lion and the lamb will not happen until the trumpet sounds and Jesus comes back for us!

1Thessalonians 4:16 -17 (NIV)  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.   After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 

So...there is my quirky mind!   I just thought oh my they have to be together the whole year as a reminder to me to always be looking for my Lord's return.  Because He has promised!!

Keep looking up!!  
Love,
Barb