Right now it is Christmas morning. Happy Birthday, Jesus! We celebrated Christmas with our family a few days early this year and it actually has been nice. No last minute Christmas shopping, only last minute Christmas cards and letter. We didn’t do a family gift exchange this year, where everybody buys one gift for one other person. Instead we wrote down gifts that we would give Jesus this year. If nothing else, maybe it made the grandchildren think a little more about the reason for the holiday. Why should the person, whose birthday we celebrate, be the only one NOT getting presents. What kind of birthday is that anyway?
It is snowing again. Truly a white Christmas. It looks like Winter Wonderland out there. So beautiful. I love the snow covered mountains and the white snow on the ground. I just don’t like driving when it is snowing. If I could expand my Thanksgiving list, it would include cars with four wheel drive and cars with a working heater, as I have been without both of those in the past. I can also travel in a car in comfort. It sure beats walking or riding in a wagon. I am also thankful for a warm house in this cold weather. And that I can sit in here and watch the beauty outside.
I am thankful for the celebration of Christmas, for the reminder it gives us to be a little kinder, to think of others more, and to turn more to Christ.
Merry Christmas to all!
