Late Christmas Blog

Wow! I am really bad at this blogging thing. I am good at reading other people's blogs but not so great at writing my own. Not to say I haven't thought about blogging. I have thought of several things to blog about and have written them out in my head...they just did not make to the keyboard :) The past few weeks have been crazy busy! Christmas seems to be a blur now...like it was so long ago...it was a strange Christmas...it was good but emotionally draining...It felt like it was my first "grown up" Christmas...don't get me wrong it was filled with good times with friends and family...but I couldn't help think of the loved ones that we have lost in the past few years...I guess Christmas will always be kind of bittersweet without them but they have left me with many wonderful memories of childhood and Christmas's past....it did help me to remember the true meaning of why we celebrate such a special day...it's not about the gifts we did or didn't get or about who was there or who wasn't...it is about the fact that we have a God who loves us enough to leave the comfort and glory of heaven and come humbly as a human, one of us...a baby and be born in a stable...a smelly barn full of animals...live life the same as we do..with all the feelings, pain, and heartaches we face...be betrayed and die the most excruciating and humiliating death one can imagine...death on a cross...because He loves us so much that He did not want a single human to suffer a fate worse than death...an eternity in hell away from Him...He came to give us life...so we could live with Him for all eternity...what an amazing thing!!! It is so wonderful sometimes I can't seem to wrap my mind around it...I know it's normal to miss those we love...especially at certain times of the year...but the hope we have as Christians is that if they believed in Christ we will never lose them.. we may not see them for awhile here on earth and it may seem like an eternity to us..but in God's timing it's only like a millisecond...we will see them again and they will be better than the last time we saw them...happy and healthy...in a place where there is no sadness, no tears, only joy... and a place where they are full of life...life given to them by the one who died and defeated death, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I really did not plan on making this a late Christmas blog..but then again I live not by my plans but by HIS!