Everybody can do their little dance now, I've decided to post. This week has been crazy, first we had friends come in town, which was really fun. Then, we did the whole christmas thing three different days with different parts of our family. We went to a candlelight service with my uncle and mom, he and my aunt and are methodist, and we went to one with them last year, but she wasn't able to this time because it was past the baby's bedtime. The service wasn't the best, it was the basic sinner's prayer type sermon with a little bit of christmas stuff to it. I really enjoyed watching the lady who signed the service though. I had some fun this week with everybody, but it makes me sick how Christmas has been used as a holiday to celebrate everything but the birth of Jesus. I don't think His birthday is supposed to be about us receiving gifts. Phillippians 2:3-8 says" Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." Now really, how many people do you think were really thinking about this, or anything besides what was in that package they were tearing open as they were sitting under their trees? Prolly not many. Jesus wasn't even born in winter, but if people choose to take time to honor His birthday then, that's okay, if we actually are with a sincere heart. My favorite memory of Christmas is one year, whne after all the present opening was over, we went to our home church and listened to some singing, had a good fellowship with some friends, and read out of the Bible . That was the first time I ever met our friends who were just in town, and that's another reason it's my favorite Christmas, they're really sweet people. I hope y'all got something out of what I wrote and if I offended anyone in what I wrote here, I'm sorry I offended you but not sorry about what I wrote. I hope I made sense, because when I was thinking what to write it sounded much better than it does now. Sorry guys, I have trouble with words:). Well, I gotta run. Everybody have a great weekend! Alicia