This was an amazing and interesting Christmas season, 2010. First, went to church at St. Mark's for the Choir program (played bass) and then for the 12th (played bass for the children) and again on the Christmas Eve service (ran spotlight). I also hit the early service on the 19th and the post-Christmas on the 26th. Huh. Every Sunday in December...that's gotta be a record.
Spiritually, there were a couple great images that Keith painted for us. First was the story of the Fall during the presentation of the Gospel on Christmas Eve. The script used the image of the sacrifice of an animal for a covering of clothing, an innocent animal to cover the sin, which paved the way for the later innocent Lamb paying for the covering of our sin nature. The other powerful image was that of the day after Christmas. All of the power of God was wrapped up in the tiny form of the baby, the heavenly hosts looking down at this wee thing saying "That little thing? That's God???" and the earthly kings and shepherds coming to the cradle and saying "Wow! That's GOD!" all coming out of the Philipians 2:6+ scripture. Powerful stuff!
And then there's the gifts. Joshua wanted us to be creative and do philanthropic stuff (another blog I gotta get out of the draft stage), and Becky saw a way to do that. Through Compassion International we bought a goat to be sent to a family in Central or South America, and to commemorate that, we sent Joshua and Mi Ryung a cheese plate and asked her to get some goat cheese for Joshua (yes, we sent money). For Kate and David we bought a down comforter, and through the Heifer Project we purchased a flock of geese and a flock of ducks. Nate and Michelle won't have their gifts until Thursday, but for Isaac we got an electric razor and someone somewhere got a whatever of bees through the Heifer Project. Yes, they both go buzz. I know, but it was fun!
Hope you had a merry Christmas and are looking for a good new year.
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