Merry Christmas!
 (it is just the seventh day of Christmas)

This Christmas has been somewhat different to me.  In some ways it has been the same yet I think that this upcoming trip has given it a little different flavor.  With every event and moment I keep thinking where I will be next year (somewhere in Ecuador?).  Sometimes the thoughts bring tears to my eyes and sometimes excitement (or often both).

In between these thoughts I have been thinking about the Christmas Story too. I wish I could share all of the different trails my thoughts have taken this year, but one was predominate in my mind.  Jesus. Yes, I know that sounds obvious, but bear with me. I keep thinking about who He was before coming and then realizing that He stayed the same even in coming to earth as a baby.  Did that little baby know?  He was fully God yet He was a baby. I really can’t wrap my mind around it. It is humbling, or should be, to think that God came in the most helpless form.  He did that for me.  Now, can I in turn become humble as my Lord did? Yes, but I have to be willing to let Him humble me.  I cannot do it myself.

That is humbling.

 

I hope this Christmas was/is blessed and you have a Happy New Year!

Through Christ,

Brooke