We found ourselves this year, on the 23rd of December, finished with all the traveling, family visits, and general excitement, most of the gift giving and receiving over, and thoroughly exhausted!
What that meant was a wonderfully quiet Christmas, and time to reflect on the real meaning of it.
This is one of the highlights of our Christmas this year: a little book we read through as a family that has a reading for each day to meditate on Christ's birth as the fulfillment of so many of God's promises. How great it was to reflect on the promises God made in the Old Testament and the New and see them answered and be filled with excitement all over again that God sent the answer for our need! It was good to remember how the Jews at the time of the Messiah's coming might have felt. No wonder the angels sang "Glory to God and on Earth Peace to Men!" This was an exciting time and worthy of celebration!
We were also able to spend Christmas Eve with our friends, the Kaneverskys. What a great family! I wish you all could know them! Erin made us a fantastic ham dinner and later we got to participate in the family's time of reflection using the adornaments (ornaments for the tree, each representing a name of Jesus: The Door, The Lion of Judah, etc.) and also completing the advent nativity set they use. It was great!
Addie and their son Clayton have a Christmas hug.
We wish that somehow we could have every Christmas with family and yet still have the quiet time at home that we enjoyed so much this year! Oh well!
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