Christmas Reflections

A belated Merry Christmas to you all! I wanted to actually post this on Christmas, but due to sleeping in, hanging out with family and too much delicious food sitting in my stomach, I was unable to do it.

Yesterday was a ton of fun! I always love getting together with my family (even if my cousins are really weird and gave me the money to by my Christmas present from them and then made me wrap it up so that I couldn't open it till I was with them on Christmas), and yesterday was no exception. In the afternoon all of the grandchildren got together at the Grandparent house and played some games, and then we went to another relative's house for supper and presents. As proof of my extreme nerdyness, I got exceedingly excited when I discovers my present from my Grandparents contained post-it-notes.

But even though family, presents and post-it-notes are all awesome, we all know that, that isn't what Christmas is really about. Unfortunately, it is hard to focus on the birth of Jesus, when opening presents is so much more interesting, and most of the  time I really fail at it. But this year I decided that on Christmas eve I was going to read the Christmas story from my Bible and really spend some time thinking about it. As I was laying in bed, contemplating, the extent of Jesus' sacrifice really hit me. See, most people focus on the cross and how much He suffered for us there, but his suffering started a lot sooner than that. I mean, He left heaven, an absolutely perfect place, where He was with God all the time, came to this completely messed up world and lived with us for over 30 years. I mean when you think about it, would you be willing to leave paradise to save a group of people who hated you? Probably not. I doubt I would have done something so selfless. This is just another example of the awesome love Jesus had for us, and how completely amazing our salvation is.

So yeah, this is what I am going to try and think about on Christmas from now on.

Until next time, au revoir.

~Nat

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