Christmas was hectic as usual, but full of family, food and gifts aplenty. I did finish reading the book "Fourth Dawn" by the Thoenes out loud Christmas night. It puts the movie about the nativity to shame. There are still 2 more books about the nativity, but I don't know if I will get to read them before next Christmas out loud. This morning the tree was removed and everything Christmas put away. I have become a scrooge of sorts as far as this holiday is concerned. It has never been my favorite. Not to dismiss Christ's birthday, but I really despise all the commercialism that goes with it.
All the craziness of coming and going, buying and wrapping can be exhilarating for some, but I prefer the quiet mellow time with my family. Vaughn is usually off during Christmas holidays for an extended time. I truly enjoy those days once Christmas is over. We connect again as a couple without the stress of work or school. He is a great husband and father and we so relish his time home.
This year we will travel for the New Years to the mountains. One of Vaughn's cousins will be married. It is rare that we see the Hopson side of the family, but when we do it is always such a blessing. We look forward to spending time with them.
Kim
Monday, December 29, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
The first blog
I have contemplated blogging over the last year. Several friends blog regularly, so I decided to take the plunge. Let's see how it goes.
Aging to perfection, that is what we are doing. Perfection is not something we will ever see in this life, but something to try and attain. This blog will reveal the aging I am doing, be it physical, emotional or spiritual.
Phil 3:8-15 says it best, I press on toward that goal.
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith-- that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
(Php 3:8-15) ESV
Aging to perfection, that is what we are doing. Perfection is not something we will ever see in this life, but something to try and attain. This blog will reveal the aging I am doing, be it physical, emotional or spiritual.
Phil 3:8-15 says it best, I press on toward that goal.
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith-- that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
(Php 3:8-15) ESV
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