Its that time of the year again, Christmas. It's amazing how time changes things. Not so many years ago the Christmas season was a chance for a few weeks of vacation. Now it's the busiest time of the year, not to mention the most expensive. It also seemed to take forever for the next Christmas to get here, now it seems like last year's Christmas was just last week. I guess it's just old age setting in. If its this bad at 32, almost 33, what's it going to be like in another 10yrs? I guess I'll have to wait another 10yrs to find out.
As I do get older I do start to realize the importance of not forgetting the real reason for the season; through all the chaos of shopping, traveling, cooking, and entertaining, Christ's birth almost becomes an after thought. If it wasn't for His birth what would be the purpose or the hope in anything we do? Lets not forgot the whole reason that we celebrate Christmas and the whole reason Christ came. "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." Matthew 1:21
Well it doesn't look like we in the Mid-West are going to have a white Christmas, we can blame Doug and Alice for taking all of our snow out in Colorado, maybe we'll get one next year. Hopefully Doug made it safely through the 3 feet of snow to drive back to Illinois.
I pray that everyone has a safe and wonderful Christmas and New Year.
-Steve