Oh how I love Christmas. Especially now that we've moved away. If we still lived in Illinois, I'm not sure I would fully comprehend the importance of the holidays. I would still love them, but it wouldn't be quite as important, I don't think. When you're away all the year, you gain a new perspective.
With each loss our family has suffered over the last few years and our cross-country move, it seems I've been filled with so much overwhelming love for the people God put in my life. The people who gave me a blessed childhood, who were with me as I grew up, who've become new friends to me as we've gone on our latest adventure.
This holiday season, it's the people I celebrate.
...And I wish you and yours the very merriest of Christmases. I hope that even if you, like me, discover that your eight-year-old secretly stopped believing in Santa, there's still a sprinkling of magic on your Christmas morning.
I pray peace and comfort for you, a blessed and inspired Christmas and a happy, wonderful new year...
Card design and photos by Lyndsey Lewis.
May this be a magical, hopeful and inspiring holiday season...
May you eat whatever you want today and not gain weight...
May you laugh, laugh and laugh some more...
May you feel how very loved you are...
No, really feel it...because sometimes we forget that we are loved...
May you find a new Christmas song that you can't get out of your head...I recommend this one:
May you fall in love all over again...
And let the happiness of the season wash over you...
As you, like me, realize that on the first Christmas day, a baby was born and he came here just for you. To die. Because he loves you.
We are so blessed.
