Living in the N.O.W: What Christmas means to me

What Christmas Means ToMe

I love the feeling of community we create when the holidays come. The colours of Christmas and it's flavoring which can mean many different things to one person or another.The hope of seeing love ones we haven't seen in a while and the renewing of what could be and the sounds, sights and smellsof Christmas and of grandma to ma and grandkids to aunts even unkles cooking up a storm with nieces helping out in the kitchen as my family does around the holidays. Each year that goes by we get older and rejoice each time we get to hold our love ones again and again, thanking God. It's a moving time and the love of family can be felt miles away and you want to be where it goes. However, you have the independant ones that you wish to hear from and pinch yourself when ever they do drop a line and yet.. you still thank God for them and every moment you get to hear their voice if not face to face... hum.. What Christmas Means To Me is remembering all my love ones.. friends and family, dear neighbors and that it would not be possible if it weren't for Christ. He is the reason for the season and life itself. When he came to earth, born of a virgin letting it be known he was not of this world but from his yet appearing to us as human.. He became flesh and able to experience what it feels like to be truly human, to suffer and made perfect .. learned to be the ultimate sacrifice in order to take away sin. See, he had no choice if he truly came to save us. He could not give into temptation when tempted. It hurts tremendously to even try to remain pure and perfect. Hey, I find it hard to bite my tongue sometimes when I really want to say exactly how I really feel yet he remained still. In control of himself inspite of resistance. So he is the ultimate gift for us. He is our Savior.. Immanuel, God with us Mathew 1:20-23. I hope we all discover how Precious and Mighty the gift the Living Christ offers us all. I need his forgiveness, I need his grace for I know there is no amount of good I can take credit for and save myself with. Grace is only accepted and can't be earned but waits wrapped up in the perfect box just for you and me and it will never grow old or decay. His love is eternal. If your feeling down or discouraged, he is with you and welcomes you just where you are in life. Take a small leap of faith and welcome him and let his precious and perfect mighty gift reveal how beautiful you really are to him. Down below are pics of family, my niece, friends and awesome people I met along the way during Christmas and New Years. I hope you enjoy them. I will try to upload a video again and hope it takes so I can invite you all to take a personal look at Christmas inside my home with hubby. In the meantime.. What does Christmas mean to you? Feel free to write below and here's to making 2014. May it be a much better year for us all. Happy New year!!!

This is my husbands family @ Christmas

It gets very festive. Everyone joins in the caroling and music echoes throughout the big comfy house. It can even be for the adults a romantic theme as well