Another Christmas behind us!

There are somethings about the season I will not miss!!

Merry Christmas

I want to share something that Max Lucado wrote. And then something Linus had said.

An EXTRA-Ordinary Night

Today your Savior was

born in the town of David.

He is Christ, the Lord

LUKE 2:11

An ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds. And were it not for a God who loves to hook an "extra" on the fornt of the ordinary, the night would have gone unnoticed. The sheep would have been forgotten, and the shepherds would have slept the night away.

But God dances amidst the common. And that night he did a waltz.

The black sky exploded with brightness. Trees that had been shadows jumped into clarity. Sheep that had been silent became a chorus of curioustiy. One minute the shepherd was dead asleep, the next he was rubbing his eyes and staring into the face of an alien.

The night was ordinary no more.

The angel came in the night because that is when lights are best seen and that is when they are most needed. God comes into the common for the same reason. His most powerful tools are the simplest.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Happy Festivus Everyone!!

Festivus is an annual holiday that was made popular by Reader's Digest writer and editor Daniel O'Keefe. It was Daniel's son, a writer for Seinfeld that intorduced this "holiday" to most of us by way of a Seinfeld episode that was air on December 18, 1997.

By December 2004, when Allen Salkin's article about Festivus as a real holiday appeared in the New York Times, thousands of people around the world were celebrating Festivus with parties, grievance-airing, pole-erecting, beer-brewing and the invention of new Festivus rituals.



What I take from this particular episode is how far the Christmas season has moved from it's true meaning. In many ways, the entire season has become as meaningless as this fictional holiday. As soon as Halloween is over, many stations start playing "christmas" music (I put it in quotes because most of the songs don't even mention Christ) non-stop.

Like it or not, this season is about the birth of Christ. When God became man. It all happened in a most remarkable moment. God became a man. Divinity arrived. Heaven opened herself and placed her most precious one in a human womb.

He gave up his place with God and made himslef nothing. He was born to be a man and became like a servant. -Phillipians 2:7

God had come near!!

Merry Christmas!

The 12 Days of Christmas

This was very fun and different!

Merry Christmas!!