Unto Us A Child Is Born

As Gladys Herdman announced, “Hey, unto you a child is born!”  (If you could’ve only heard Esther say it.)

Tonight, we skipped out on the pier service due to some blustery winds and had a lovely family dinner at Coco’s.    hehehe  As we bowed our heads to pray, my sweet 8 year old sat there and thanked God for his gift of Jesus at Christmas, and asked that we would remember that gift over all of the others that we’d receive tomorrow.  PRICELESS!   We still get excited to leave the cookies, milk and reindeer food, with anticipation of what will be in our stockings in the morning, but we should be ever thankful of the gift of salvation we were all given when Jesus came to earth as a baby and eventually become the sacrifice for our sins.

Have a Merry Christmas with your families and loved ones tomorrow, and take the time to soak it all in remembering that God is good.

Christmas, Christmas Time is Here…

But you wouldn’t be able to tell here in CA by the weather.  It’s supposed to be 75 degrees today.  I guess that beats being snowed in with power outages. 

After a busy weekend of celebrating Christmas with my extended families, and preparing for our Christmas praise service Sunday morning, I’m looking forward to a day of down time.  Brandon went in to work for a bit today, and I’m still in my pajamas.  (At this moment it’s 10am.)  hehehe   My house looks like it threw up Christmas gifts after Brandon brought home lots of little things from people at church and from our weekend of  Christmases so far.  Slowly, I hope to straighten up the kitchen and other affected areas before the day is over.

Tonight, we have a family communion service at the church at 5pm, and our traditional Christmas Eve on the pier service at 7pm.  We meet at the Manhattan Beach pier, light candles, and hear the Christmas story read from the Bible as well as sing carols.

Time for some coffee and breakfast (considering the time).  Hope you can have a nice down day to soak in Christmas before it’s over. 

Pictures of the recent activities to follow….