As I'm preparing for Christmas Eve, crafting last minute pieces for our church play, wrapping family gifts and stirring meatballs I'm seized with moments of complete thankfulness as I watch my family interacting with one another.
This Christmas finds my family together, happy and healing. How amazing is that? God took all the broken parts and through many events He put us back together. I'm grateful that the One who sent His Son to redeem us is also the same One that makes all things new in lots of ways, both big and small.
"But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, 'God bless it!'" ~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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