Did the weather not get the memo??

In case you're not in Houston this Christmas Eve, it's 80 degrees today.  The news bulletin on TV this morning said that today might be the "warmest Christmas ever" with people all over the country experiencing historically high temperatures for this time of year (somewhere Al Gore's head is exploding).  Did the weather not get the memo that it's Christmastime?  Maybe not, but Christmas is here anyway.  Fortunately for us, God's providence does not depend on the weather.

Maybe the weather isn't your issue this season.  Maybe your mood didn't get the Christmastime memo either.  Maybe your checkbook missed it as well.  Maybe your children aren't old enough to understand "peace on earth" and are currently in the other room taking turns shoving each other off the couch until someone cries.  (No??  Just mine?  Huh.)

But Christmas has come anyway.  "It came without ribbons, it came without tags!  It came without packages, boxes or bags!"  Despite our circumstances Christmas comes anyway.  CHRIST comes anyway.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."  John 3:16-17

And saved we are!  Saved from the darkness, the evil murmurs in the shadows that tell us we aren't good enough, don't have enough and aren't doing it right.  Saved from the burden of having to produce a perfect holiday and instead just rejoicing that we have perfect Savior.  For the fullness of God's love comes to us anyway, wherever we are, in whatever state our hearts might be in. 

Warm Christmas wishes to you, sweet family and friends....literally! 

XOXO....Kelly