Life continues to surprise me. You can remember the precise emotions that beat in your heart each year after the presents are opened and life is calm for a brief moment. The pure joy. The angst. The fear. The excitement. Every year some new emotion becomes the leader of the march, but dig in deep and the one that is always there, through thick and thin, is thankfulness. You look back on the trials and realize that you survived it all. And through God's grace you will survive the next curve ball and the next cry that puts you in the fetal position. God is good and He is still with us. Coming as a child, living the perfect life, dyeing on the cross, and rising on the third day, all for me and you. Thankfulness is the root. After all, today is Tuesday and He is God, period.
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas from my home to yours. Give thanks to God. Worship Him. Through His grace we are saved. Who would have thought a manger would tell such a story of the man who would save the world, born on this day.
He is the way, the truth, and the light.
Until next time...
-kortni marie
