Christmas Eve
What a busy time on the run up to Christmas, to busy to blog but let me now fill you in on some of the things that have been happening.
Gracie had her very first sleepover on Saturday. It was the first time she’d been away from her mum overnight and I was slightly nervous. I’ve watched Gracie during the week for almost a year now but she had never stayed over before. How would she settle? Would she sleep? would she wake up crying? Would she miss her mum too much? I was worried for nothing, she was fine, just her usual cheery self even though she was teething. Gran gave her a bath before bed-time and I don’t know who was enjoying it more, Gran or Gracie. On Sunday we all went to church, Hope was an angel in the nativity, she’s the one nearest the projector screen.
Gracie has been really choked up all week and feeling very miserable we’re hoping she will be better for tomorrow when she comes round and we all open our presents. I’ll post some present opening pictures tomorrow, but let me leave you with this thought: Christmas is not all about stockings, snowmen, sweets and Santa. It’s not all about trees, tinsel, toys and turkey. It’s about Jesus. I like what the Grinch said after he had taken all the presents, food and decorations from the people of Whoville and heard the celebating anyway – he said,
“It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?”
It means a big bit more, Jesus is the reason for this season In the Bible, in the book of John it says, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” He’s the best present you’ll ever get so recieve the gift of God’s Son and let the peace the joy and the love of Jesus fill your hearts and minds, and have the best Christmas ever.
