Holiday Reflections

It is after the holidays ... time to rest up from merry making, present wrapping and unwrapping, cooking and eating, and people-ing.  We enjoyed it all this year.  We have much for which to give thanks.  We were blessed with family visits and we blessed others by being visiting family.  We traveled many miles in safety, no small feat considering the weather.  We ate lots of good food and enjoyed the company of many good friends.  We received many good gifts!

 Perhaps the best gift of all was hearing an international student friend share her enthusiasm for the gift of peace she has received from Jesus!  In sharing a conversation with a relative in her home country she told us "I believe in God, I believe in Jesus, and now I have peace."  And so we rejoiced with her and the angels rejoiced with us too! Truly this is the best expression of the "reason for the season"!