Life...

Life is just so awesome right now! :) The sun is shining and it's absolutely gorgeous outside right now! Today our youth are going to go play softball and have discada for supper... a farewell for one of our youth guys... (he's leaving for Haiti for 2 years and I am SO JEALOUS :) ) Life is just so awesome, phenomenal, superb, extensively cool... does that make sense? I'll pretend it does ;) I guess I kinda feel that life is slowly slowly getting to be... under control. Under control? No... I am not in control, but I feel like well, you ever have those times when everything in life jus starts... clicking into place? Or so it seems... I feel like life is more organized now... :) And I am even making progress on my Resolutions! yay! :) A grand feeling. PLUS SPRING HAS SPRUNG! and that makes life even happier... along with the fact that Easter is tomorrow. The older I get, the more I think about Easter... THE Easter story... God's unimagineable, out-of-our-comprehension love! It makes everything about life... the joys, the sad parts all seem so trivial. Not? It does for  me... when I think of His incredible Plan! Life. Is. So. Amazing! :) I have had my ramble now... yay! bye... till tomorrow!

P.S. plus now that my life is more in place..... I'll have a little more time to post :)

Love.

This December, I've been amazed at many things. The simple things in Life. Caroling, singing songs about Jesus. The one lady had tears rolling down her cheeks and the most radiant smile on her face as she listened to the carols being sung. As we began to leave, she exclaimed, "Oh, I thought I was hearing angels tonight!" It's the simple things of life. Today I was walking hurriedly through the mall, trying to find that last minute Christmas gift, when an older lady sitting on a bench looked at me, and gave me a smile. Somehow, it made my day. So the next person I came into contact with, I smiled at them and the tired look was replaced with a smile. :) the simple things of  Life.
     Most of all, I've been impressed, and amazed, all over again at the most simple thing, yet the most wonderful thing of all. God's Love. Wow. The continuing amazing simplicity, and endurance of His Love. Time and again, I fail, you fail. Yet because of this awesome Grace and Love, we can start over, and keep walking in the Way. The Forgiveness. All because of that awesome infinite Love. Love came down as a baby, Love walked on the earth. Love was subjected to the abuse and rejection of  It's creation. Love loved them anyway. Love died for me, for you. Love chose this, when It would never have had to. Love, pure undefiled Love. Love loved me and you even when we thought we knew better, thought we could make it on our own. Love kept loving us when we forsook Him. Isn't it amazing?  How Deep the Fathers Love for us, how vast beyond all Measure. The most simple Thing ever, yet at the same time, the most complex Thing. God's Love.
    May you all have a wonderful Christmas Dav :)

...The Reason...

     We hear about it all the time. We read about it, yet how much do we actually think about it? Taking Christ out of Christmas. This year as December approached a few of my friends and I were talking about Christmas, what we liked about it, and so on. Caroling, being with friends all the time, gift giving, you get the picture. But, thinking back, we left out the most important part. We left out the essence of Christmas. Not one did "the reason for the season" get brought up! Jesus Christ, the True Reason. That really got me thinking! Surely I / You / We are not scared to talk about it?! OR-  Is it because it actually slips our minds? My friends and I are Christians. Jesus is the central theme of my life so I say, but do I actually get so caught up with the rush, with the activities, the "hustle and bustle" of the season, so to speak, that i forget about the most important part?    
     Please, don't get me wrong. I love everything that comes with it, and I should. I do not think God requires that I not look forward to the activities etc. Its just, well... how about let's not let our focus get off..... the Reason. 


 ~Peace~