Christmas time is here...beauty everywhere...

Christmas is my most favorite time of year. Did you ever notice how many more people smile at you during the holiday season? This Christmas is a little bittersweet though. I had hoped that my mad dash through the stores on Black Friday would be for children's toys. I imagined Santa filling tiny stockings and eating the cookies I baked with a little one in the high chair next to me.

Have you ever turned all of the lights off in your house except the tree and just sat and stared at it? I do it every year. It is so beautiful, and merry. We have a cute star in the top that changes colors, and it always draws my eyes. Can you imagine what it was like for the wise men to look up into the sky and see a beautiful star shining down from heaven? Sometimes I wish I had a guiding star to follow everyday. A star that would lead me back to my heavenly home. It may sound silly but, we are always being reminded that life is short, especially compared to eternity. This life is just a tiny speck in the timeline of our existence. I don't want to waste the time I have on this earth with my children. I have had seven and a half years that I could have spent with them. I know, I know, 26 is still young blah blah blah... but everyday is a day lost that I could have spent with my babies. Anyway, I have another baby's birth to celebrate this season, so I'll try to focus on my Savior.

I've never really listened much to the song "I wonder as I wander", however Stephen wrote a trio for Adrienne and Kelly and I and that song is my part. I was singing it the other day and I realized, it's a beautiful song.

I wonder as I wander out under the sky

How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die

For poor on'ry people like you and like I;

I wonder as I wander out under the sky

When Mary birthed Jesus 'twas in a cow's stall

With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all

But high from God's heaven, a star's light did fall

And the promise of ages it then did recall.

If Jesus had wanted for any wee thing

A star in the sky or a bird on the wing

Or all of God's Angels in heaven to sing

He surely could have it, 'cause he was the King

I wonder as I wander out under the sky

How Jesus the Saviour did come for to die

For poor on'ry people like you and like I;

I wonder as I wander out under the sky

So, while you wander this Christmas season, ponder your Savior. Merry Christmas!