Merry Christmas

Christmas is my favorite time of year. Celebrating the birth of our Savior, spending time with family, finding the perfect gifts. I love decorating and lights and Christmas music. It's my favorite time. I have the tree up as soon as Thanksgiving is over and don't take it down until the end of January at the earliest. Unfortunately the emotional wear of the past 4 1\2 years takes its toll, especially at Christmas. It's a family oriented holiday and all of the kids in commercials takes its toll at times. Its hard not to wish for what you don't have t, to hope that the end of waiting is near. It's a time when people choose to announce their coming blessings, and though you are immensely happy for them, it's a reminder of what you don't have. So, we try to do things to help cover the hole in our hearts. We start our own traditions. We help others in need. We live vicariously through friends and their children. It would be easy to curl up and hibernate. To try to hide through the season. But I've learned a lot through the last few years. So tonight I choose to be grateful. Grateful for the wait. Grateful for time with family. Grateful for a husband who loves me. And most of all I am beyond grateful for a Savior who chose a humble birth in a manger. A Savior who chose to come as as babe, to ultimately save us from a sinful life. And I am grateful that in those uncertain moments when I'm tired and unsure if I can go on, I have a Savior who gives me the grace and strength to go on one more day. Happy birthday Jesus. Thank you for choosing a humble birth to give us the greatest gift.

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