What I liked best about the Christmas holidays

1. Thinking about how the whole deal is about the Christ and how I get to live in a time when not only the Christ is present but the Holy Spirit has been poured out on all flesh too. Like anybody with a sense of Kingdom theology I sense the end is at hand.

2. Spending time with Ma; just being with her and doing stuff together. You won't know what I'm talking about until you've been married 30 + years too.

3. Having Andy here.

4. Listening to some of Bryan's songs he laid down when he went to Ohio. I got a whole new revelation about that young feller.

5. Having missionaries we know stay at our place a whole day so we could talk and pray with them.

6. Being surprised by how much I don't like the organizational church.

7. Being surprised as I walked down the hall of a low income apartment building delivering a Christmas hamper and hearing, "This is real church, don't ever get it mixed up with the event on Sunday".

8. Ice fishing in my new tent, the "ice cube".

9. Skating around the whole perimeter of Lac la Nonne. 18km, 1.5 hours. The skate adds to the bike around I did last year, just before it snowed. Next up is to ski it.

10. Listening to a stressed out, over-worked, exhausted Bobbie laugh one night after supper. It was pure joy.

The Lord gave me a number of words over Christmas and today I'm mulling over this one: "Godliness with contentment is great gain". I think it's sort of a backwards New Years resolution, finding contentment rather than making all sorts of resolutions.

Here's to being content, no matter what, and finding God in it.

Pa