Pondering Christmas

BLESSED BEYOND WORDS. . .

As I was listening to the over the top wonderful Christmas music Christmas Eve, listening to Pastor Jon’s poignant, spirit-filled strong witness for Christ and Christ alone; as I sat there with my daughter and granddaughter who wanted to come with me, surrounded by my other family I hold so dear at the Vine, I was overcome again and again by the unbelievable never-ending miracles of God. 

I mean just glancing around and pondering the Lord’s choice that I get to be born an American and my country is still free to do or be or say or thing anything and everything and we are not thrown in prison or tortured or even killed after we are forced  to watch our children be destroyed first.

Or when I see a sister-in-Christ like Libby Dixon whom we all know is the most loving, joyful, rejoicing, righteous Christian we will meet, overcome her handicap of deafness by being a super lip reader, and watching her not only sing a hymn but sign it at the same time and then then to notice that she is also playing the trumpet well I don’t even thing the word miracle can do it justice.

Then when we went home to celebrate our Christmas that evening and having our delicious array of favorite appetizers and seeing all our little and few special gifts under our tree of lights only, still I am drowning in the Lord’s shower of blessing upon me and mine.  

We all agreed that getting all the Christmas stuff out for two weeks was a bit much and for us it isn’t a tree and ornaments anyway and as long as we have Karissa home and Kenzie calling in on the phone, and especially when Karissa wanted to be sure we had a birthday cake for Jesus so she made and decorated it so cutely and with such love that surely this is all we need to know it is Christmas.