Christmas Day 2009

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I am sitting at my desk in my small attic office, looking out the tiny window at a gentle snowfall as light breaks on Christmas Morning 2009.
I am drinking hot chocolate and listening to Bing Crosby Christmas music in the background. There is a fire in the wood stove and I am comfortably warm.
All is at rest. I am at peace in my soul.
When I think of all the terrible suffering going on in the world TODAY, I realize fully that my life is very good!
All my life, for reasons I do not understand, I have always loved winter, and am most thrilled when it is actually snowing heavily. I remember in my youth I was always thrilled to be on some “Most Difficult” ski run of some ski resort and it would begin snowing so hard I couldn’t see far. I would stop and stand there just looking around in wonder. I was always conflicted with the knowledge that I was so touched, but not knowing why.
I love riding my sled (Alaskan for snowmobile) in the back country through snow so heavy you can't see the trees let alone the trail, then stop, turn off the sleds and just watch it snow. I love how it makes sounds so muffled and quiet. How the thick air makes your world seem so small. I think I like winter because I actually have the spirit of Christmas all winter long, and Christmas day is all that much more!

For me Christmas day is what the entire winter is all about. Up to Christmas it is all about the anticipation of the happy times with family and friends, and after Christmas it is all about the great memories of all the Christmases that have been. Without the day of Christmas there would be no Christmas season.

The Bible is just like that. The entire bible before Christ is all about the anticipation of his coming. The entire bible after Christ is all about the memorial of who he is and what he did.
Today as the world I know dissolves around me into certainly less pleasant times, I can cast off my concerns of our country and its future, for one day, and experience fully the Joy of knowing that God is still in control and no event is a surprise to Him.
I think about that stuff on Christmas day, and thank God for sending me the Savior of my soul.
What do you think about on Christmas day?
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