Christmas Greetings from Our Home to Yours...

After a month of wonderful, winter-like weather, complete with a generous supply of snow and ice for December, we will have to settle for more temperate temperatures somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, which is our long-standing family tradition.  While my children will be dreaming of a white Christmas, I'll take the warmer one without a complaint.  The only "white" I remember in Christmas growing up in South Florida was the sand on the beaches!

As we all skamper here and there making final preparations for this wonderful holiday, let's not forget to remember why we do this each year.  Long ago there was another couple in a hurry too, in a hurry to travel to a small, insignificant town in Judea called Bethlehem.  Instead of finding crowded malls of shoppers, there was over-crowding at the inns, so much so that a very pregnant woman in need of medical care had to settle for a working stable to find some rest.  But God keeps His promises, and a prophesy about this baby's birth - made more than 600 years prior - would also be kept.  Her child born that night would be the source of rest throughout the ages.  

God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

May you and yours experience His rest, comfort and joy, even in a very confused world.  He still keeps His promises, even today...