Reason for the Season....

As the Christmas hustle and bustle is in full swing, I was humbled this morning at church. A good friend of mine and former coworker sang a solo for the choir.... her voice is truly just beautiful! She is an amazing women, mother of two, hard worker and has had a lot of struggles in her life. Today as I talked with her after the service to tell her I was brought to tears, we talked about how we try to always keep things in perspective of what is really worth living for in life. She won one of the door prizes ($100 Wal Mart gift card) last night at the Cardinal Christmas party... along with two other good friends who each won $250 gift cards (both of whom truly need that this year.. with husband job losses, etc). I said to her that God had that planned for them all.... as I truly do believe as such... he gave these three people (among others last night, 35 door prizes in total) an early Christmas gift, one that means more to them this year than other years would have meant. We both agreed.

Today's service was the kickoff of the Christmas season and festivities at church. I was there with both kids but without Mark as he had to work at Target (missing him and feeling like something was missing). I was so humbled and felt so blessed the whole service.... many times brought to tears. As I am thankful for so many things.... my health, the love of people in my life... really that is all I need to keep me going... but this year I feel so thankful for the amazing family I have with my church... and that I have rediscovered God... not that I ever stopped my discovery... it has just been renewed and he has done SO much for me recently. For that, I am so blessed... truly blessed. In today's service, we sang "The Reason for the Season"..... so true... and so beautiful....