What Christmas Looks Like by Nicole Neesby

What is the most common line we hear during this crazy holiday season!?

We are just so busy

While Christmas

parties

shopping

baking

decorating

family dinners

cooking

gift wrapping

plays

and more

make this statement true for many of us

I often ask myself

Do I need to be this insane during this best time of the year?!

Because as I sit back and remember why the entire world shuts down on
December Twenty-Fifth

I picture 

a simple couple

in a simple shelter

with simple farm animals

all gathered around the baby Son of God

The peace, love and joy seems a far cry from the chaos we have come to know Christmas as today

As Hubs and I adventure through this first Christmas together since our spring wedding in a
little white church

my hope is that I can view Christmas this way.

For us this looks like simple decorations throughout our house

Unique family traditions like cutting our tree

Decorating together

Then cuddling on the couch to watch a Christmas movie by the lights

Family meals and special food

Simple gifts not purchased with credit

Spending time with those who we love

And mostly most important

Remember how the Maker of the World came to live among us and love us so perfect and unconditionally

. . . .

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.  

~Charles Dickens

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Nicole blogs over at The Neesby Lookbook. She is a busy girl, working three jobs and recently returned from a trip to China. She is as sweet as they come.

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And Don't Forget...

Take Time today to Remember Christ!