Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends! I pray that if you are already trusting in Jesus for your salvation and only hope that your affections will be renewed and grown this season as you meditate on what it meant for our creator to humble himself and come to our fallen world, born so that He might die. That if you are going through trials, troubles, or feeling like a failure that you might think on what Mary and Joseph experienced surrounding Jesus' birth. Likely condemned by friends for Mary's pregnancy out of wedlock, Joseph's scrambling to have some place, ANY place ready for the Son of God to be born in. They likely were overwhelmed with a sense of failure and stress because they were bringing this holy child into the world in a stable, with little money, and unable to return home because they had to flee to Egypt as refugees. They likely felt like they weren't doing enough when every little detail was planned by their heavenly Father. If you are not trusting in Jesus for your salvation and only hope then I pray that you would run out of things to put your hope in. I pray that all the temporary things that promise temporary joy will disintegrate and leave you searching for something eternal. That this season, your heart will be softened and eyes opened and you will choose to turn to Him who is your only hope for all eternity, starting now. Without the birth of Jesus, none of us would have any hope. Celebrate His birth, becasue without the condescension of Son of God, we would not have the cross and ressurection. His birth is worthy of celebrating greatly!
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This week has been very hard. Wild Man was recovering from pnuemonia, Robert was trying to not get it and was up most nights coughing while also taking a J term all day. On Friday he coughed so hard he messed up his back again and has been laid up since then (recovering quickly though). Tuesday, after a whole week of Jack not eating much of anything and not drinking and still losing weight I finally decided maybe he wasn't just stressed, but sick. So we took him to the vet. The vet believes he has lymphoma cancer and will not survive much longer at all. He had lost 21 pounds by the time we got to the vet. We have him at home now and he is till eating and drinking almost nothing. He is still able to walk and climb up into the van for a ride. He shows some excitement at the mention of going for a ride. We opened his christmas gift early because we aren't sure if he will survive until Christmas. But he doesn't have the stomach to eat the treats. : ( This is super hard on the kids, especially the older ones. We have been very honest with them and right now, we are praying as a family that the Lord will either heal him or allow him to die at home. Currently, I am trying to get pictures of him with the littlest ones because they won't remember him. I'm really hoping to get a picture of all the kids will with him tomorrow. Jack is 7.5 years old. We adopted him when he was 11 weeks old, Tender was 5, Hurricane was 2, and The Boy was 10 months old. It's very sad right now around our home. |
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