Sunday, December 13, 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Surprisingly. The city is covered in Christmas lights and decorations. So we decided that even though Christmas is going to look a little different than we are used to that we would not let that keep us from making our home feel like Christmas. So we decided to go find ourselves a tree...
Sorry for the blurriness but if you can make it out that is our little tree wrapped in plastic


So we got home and put it up and hung the stockings...


I know this may look like a Charlie Brown tree but this is the best we could find and it works just great for us. In all seriousness it is somewhat crazy to walk through the streets and the malls here and see everything and everyone so decked out for Christmas and as I thought about it more it really is pretty disturbing that the vast majority of the people here have no idea who Christ even is. I would venture to say that 95% of the people here would tell you that Christmas is just when Americans give gifts to each other, which may not be far from the truth in much of America. I pray that it looks different from that for us. I pray that as we (as the Church) prepare our hearts for the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior we would be overwhelmed by the grace of our God. That while we were still sinners, he made a way for us.

1 comment:

  1. mom loved seeing the stockings, cat. want you to know that reading your words is always such a blessing and an encouragement to me. and so excited for yall and the precious one that is coming!

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