Why I love Christmas.
I have always loved Christmas and it has always been my favorite time of year. I was thinking this year, why? I don't know a specific reason but the first that came to mine is the ultimate reason. Jesus.
I have always loved babies and birth and pregnant women and what is the best birth story ever but the birth of Jesus? It wasn't dramatic or perfect or so many things I can imagine. It was the son of God coming to this earth. The circumstances surrounding it all really make me think when I stop. Our world would say that it really was in ugly circumstances, how lonely did Mary feel? How did Joseph change his thinking when he saw his life change before his eyes? What was that moment when Christ slipped into this earth like? Was it just the two of them? Was there healing and peace in that moment? I think of these things and wonder.
Over all I am thankful. Thankful that God chose to love us so much to allow His one and only precious son to come to this earth and in the setting that He did. Life is messy, life can be hard, life can treat us wrong, and yet there is hope.
There is peace in it, and this time of year I feel it most. Maybe it is the deadness of winter and seeing all the shining lights and trees to brighten it? Maybe it is families coming together when they tend to be pulled apart the rest of the year? Maybe it is the joy on my son's face when he opens his gifts? Maybe it is being able to give to those I love? Maybe it is all the good food? Maybe it is the snow that blankets the ground and covers the ugly? Maybe it is the bright decorations and even the little elves? I know these all are a part of it and makes it the reason I love this season.
This year as I write this I am so thankful. I look back on the road I have traveled and I am in a good place. I have walked some hard paths and I have climbed some steep mountains. And... looking now I would not trade it for anything. They make me who I am today. A glimpse of what I hope to be in the future. As I grow as a woman, a wife, a mother, a Child of God, I hope to remember all those times. Because I know there will be more. I am so blessed. I have a beautiful child, and precious baby growing inside me, a husband that loves me and our family first, and so so much more. I couldn't have made this happen if I tried. Believe me, I tried. I am thankful for the love my Savior gives to me each day and all he has allowed me to experience. God is so good. I am thankful he allowed me to go to the Philippines and fall in love with the heart for people He gave me, for allowing a part of me come back that I thought I had lost. I am thankful for the beautiful people who donated there embryos so that we might have another child and that I might experience pregnancy and birth. I am thankful for Rose and Ian and Vicki for pushing me and guiding me down my path to becoming a midwife. I am thankful that I am done with that chapter and moving towards the next one of being a midwife. I am thankful for my husband who made everything possible. Taking Will whenever, never complaining, supporting me and giving me a gift I could never return. He is my hero and my best friend.
I could go on and on with the blessing God has poured into my life. So I end with saying that I serve an amazing and powerful God and as this year ends I hope to dive into the next with praise and adoration for Who He is. Thank you.
I have always loved babies and birth and pregnant women and what is the best birth story ever but the birth of Jesus? It wasn't dramatic or perfect or so many things I can imagine. It was the son of God coming to this earth. The circumstances surrounding it all really make me think when I stop. Our world would say that it really was in ugly circumstances, how lonely did Mary feel? How did Joseph change his thinking when he saw his life change before his eyes? What was that moment when Christ slipped into this earth like? Was it just the two of them? Was there healing and peace in that moment? I think of these things and wonder.
Over all I am thankful. Thankful that God chose to love us so much to allow His one and only precious son to come to this earth and in the setting that He did. Life is messy, life can be hard, life can treat us wrong, and yet there is hope.
There is peace in it, and this time of year I feel it most. Maybe it is the deadness of winter and seeing all the shining lights and trees to brighten it? Maybe it is families coming together when they tend to be pulled apart the rest of the year? Maybe it is the joy on my son's face when he opens his gifts? Maybe it is being able to give to those I love? Maybe it is all the good food? Maybe it is the snow that blankets the ground and covers the ugly? Maybe it is the bright decorations and even the little elves? I know these all are a part of it and makes it the reason I love this season.
This year as I write this I am so thankful. I look back on the road I have traveled and I am in a good place. I have walked some hard paths and I have climbed some steep mountains. And... looking now I would not trade it for anything. They make me who I am today. A glimpse of what I hope to be in the future. As I grow as a woman, a wife, a mother, a Child of God, I hope to remember all those times. Because I know there will be more. I am so blessed. I have a beautiful child, and precious baby growing inside me, a husband that loves me and our family first, and so so much more. I couldn't have made this happen if I tried. Believe me, I tried. I am thankful for the love my Savior gives to me each day and all he has allowed me to experience. God is so good. I am thankful he allowed me to go to the Philippines and fall in love with the heart for people He gave me, for allowing a part of me come back that I thought I had lost. I am thankful for the beautiful people who donated there embryos so that we might have another child and that I might experience pregnancy and birth. I am thankful for Rose and Ian and Vicki for pushing me and guiding me down my path to becoming a midwife. I am thankful that I am done with that chapter and moving towards the next one of being a midwife. I am thankful for my husband who made everything possible. Taking Will whenever, never complaining, supporting me and giving me a gift I could never return. He is my hero and my best friend.
I could go on and on with the blessing God has poured into my life. So I end with saying that I serve an amazing and powerful God and as this year ends I hope to dive into the next with praise and adoration for Who He is. Thank you.
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