A Christmas Post

I love Christmas time.  I love the invisible joy that is floating around and sneaking inside people’s lives this time of year.  Christmas music makes me smile.  Christmas lights bring me joy.  Gingerbread house making and decorating the Christmas tree, sigh, are…great. :) I love Christmas time.

It’s so fun to get together with friends and family and I find myself looking forward to it every year.  This year is no different, I can’t wait! In my family Christmas has always been about family and about the reason we celebrate as a family.  I’ve always appreciated being able to go to church on Christmas Eve and sing songs of joy about the Savior that was given on a cold winter night.  It is the culmination of advent, the reason we have a Christmas to celebrate and I love it.

This could very easily turn into the ‘real reason for the season’ type of blog post but that’s not what I want to accomplish.  Instead I simply want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas.  May they joy that is floating around find you celebrating with family and friends for all you have to be grateful for.


Merry Christmas!!

P.S.
One of my favorites, out of the mouths of babes:

"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.  That is what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."

A Guy

This is a weird thing for me to blog about, I didn’t know if I’d ever get to write this blog…or even really want to write I blog as cliche as what I’m about to write.  But--when I started this whole blog thing I said that the reason was for me to reflect and for me to write about what was on my heart.

If you are easily grossed out by affection, you can stop reading now... and feel free to keep your ‘puke!’ comments to yourself! :)

Here goes…

All my life I’ve prayed for a guy.  Not just any guy, a special one, one just for me.  I’ve prayed prayers of pleading and prayers of understanding, I’ve prayed prayers that asked for patience I’ve prayed that my controlling tendancies would be taken away from me.  There were moments when I prayed for a guy to show up at a specific time and have qualities A-Z on my list of non-negotiables.  But mostly I’ve trusted that God would provide and I continue to trust that God always provides for me.

Recently, well in the last 6 or so weeks, I seemed to have stumbled across a guy.  At first I was very unsure of the timing and even if I was ready to give anything a try (I can write this because he already knows how this all went down :)).  But I learned a very important lesson in the process of falling for this guy.  I’ve learned how much being in a relationship and choosing a relationship is not about controlling situations or checking things off a list or even second guessing anything.  I’ve learned that God is providing for me exactly what I’ve been praying for all this time: A guy.  A guy who loves the Lord. A guy who puts his family first.  A guy who adores me. A guy who can make me laugh for hours.  A guy who loves kids.  A guy who is humble and caring. A guy who would do anything for a friend.  Just a guy.

Since relationships are one of my favorite things I think that it would be terrible of me to not mention that I really love being in a relationship like the one I have with this guy.  I love having someone to call with good news.  I love choosing to make him a priority.  I love that he makes me a priority.  I love having him kiss me goodnight.  Hey, what can I say, we were made to be in relationships!

Anyway, I could go on writing about all of his great qualities and how he makes me feel all night but I have to get SOME sleep! :)  Either way, for those of you who are my caring friends and family who have always worried about me, know that I’m happy and however this ends up I’ll be a better person for choosing a relationship with this guy.