It's late but I wanted to do a little post and thought that this was a sweet photo of our little Matthias. This whole past year has been a bit of a blur for me and it is wild to think that my baby has already been with us for about 5 months! He is such a happy baby, loves to carry on a good conversation with you and we are so blessed to have our little #4. As many of you with children already know they are all so very different and we love to see and work with the uniqueness that God placed in each of their lives, though challenging at times very worth all the effort.
Presently we are in NH and Jeremy is the interim pastor at Park Street Baptist Church for this coming year. Shortly after the holidays we will be making another move (though hopefully the last one for a while) into the parsonage as we begin that ministry full time.
As there is now less than a weeks time before Christmas is upon us the next few days I am sure will be a flurry of activity and creativity. The kids were able to work with me this afternoon (as Jeremy was out) to get his present prepared . . . so that would be one down and about 4 more to go as I work with each of them to complete various gifts for the holidays. It sure is more work to do things this route (the Homemade one) but the lessons that we are able to model and teach into gift giving far outweigh the extra effort that it requires. We say over and over again that it is the 'thought' that counts but are we truly able to live that out when the opportunity presents itself? That has been a personal challenge to me as well. . . if I am telling them that it is not the dollar factor in a gift that makes it good but the thought and effort to give in reflection of love (it's getting late and this is getting long so I'll wrap it up). Then a homemade gift is very acceptable . . . that means some extra time and thought on my part as well in living that out in our gifts to them. This philosophy has also helped in toning down the commercialism craze that normally goes along with celebrating Christmas which is after all supposed to be the remembrance of our Saviors birth.
2 comments:
Beautiful post!! How I miss you amiga! Ha sido en este año que Abbi está más consciente de la Navidad, y obvio porque nosotros se lo hemos dicho. Aquí no lo puedes sentir... no hay frio, ni comerciales, ni mercadotecnia, pero Abby espera celebrar el cumpleaños de Jesús, y eso es lo importante... No tuve tiempo de hacer mis regalos esta vez, pero una vez más, hace que nuestro enfoque esté en Cristo, y no en nosotros. Este año eso ha llenado completamente mi corazón y me hace feliz. Sí, cada uno de los niños son diferentes... y ha sido fabuloso para mí ver con Pablo cómo se va formando un hombre. Solo fuimos mujeres en casa y estoy disfrutando mucho a mi varoncito. Felicidades por el pastorado, y ánimo con el trabajo. Los amamos.
Yeah! I've been checking your blog daily waiting for your next post. :-) Ryan and I both commented that "little Matthias" looks so big!
It's so fun to hear of your homemade gifts. Eliana has made pot holders for a few people and we have been baking away to give as gifts. Caleb so wanted to make Eliana a doll house with his tools but I don't think that will be done in time for Christmas. =(
We LOVE our homemade gift and have thoroughly been enjoying the family time spent around a good game of marbles!
We miss you, we love you and we thank God upon EVERY remembrance of you!
Merry CHRISTmas dear friends,
Lisa
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