Happy New Year!!!
I hope you had a wonderful Birthday celebration and received some wonderful gifts as well as enjoyed giving some gifts to the people that are pretty wonderful in your life. My girls are now 13, 16 and 18… Abbey, Hannah and Ashley. Each year they seem to get more and more into their giving of gifts (instead of getting heated about whose turn it is to open!). This year the phrase was, “open this one from me.” Their gifts were heartfelt and creative…loved that!
The definition for a great gift might be that it is enjoyed long after it is opened. There have been a few gifts from Christmases past that just keep on giving. I still use my iPod I received for Christmas five years ago almost every day. The journal my family gave me last year just got its last entry for 2011.
There was a special gift God gave me for Christmas in 2010 that continued to bring a smile to my face every time I heard it play this year, even a tear of joy on one occasion. Last year God gave me a song, one that I had heard growing up. It was actually a Christmas Carol… O Holy Night. It was so tremendous how He did it, and I actually got to tell the story on the first Sunday in January of this past year. Soooo, I thought maybe you might like to hear the story through a video that captured my excitement then, and I must say, continues to capture my heart even now… Like so many of His gifts, it was a gift that keeps on giving.
The story of God’s gift to me is the first 6 minutes of this video message. Hope you enjoy.
