Wow..this year seemed to just fly by... check out how small kaden was last year in this post...as I sit here at 3am (yes, it's late... can't sleep) feelings of thankfulness and love overwhelm me. I can't really explain the joy that I have in my heart. Yes, not everything is a field of daisies in our lives... finances could be better, a job for Joel would be awesome, but sitting back... we have nothing to complain about. We have so many loving friends and family around us. We have a wonderful job for lisa, that is more than a job, it is full of people who love and care for us and our lives in such a deeper way than any employment office should. They pray for us regularly and genuinely. A new community with a church plant who is learning to care deeply for each other in ways that are humbling. A family that loves the three of us in ways we can never express...
This Christmas has been filled with anticipation! I was so excited for the season to start.... Kaden is at such a wonderful age that everything is exciting and new! We awed over lights, music, shimmering ornaments. He danced for joy at all the baking and cooking.
Opening gifts was so much fun... he wanted to play with each thing as we opened them. He didn't realize that there was 50 other gifts under the tree with his name on it with potentially cooler things. :) Joel and I have been buying little things for kaden the last few months and considered those his christmas gifts... but mistake #1: going to target the day before christmas. There were crazy deals!!! So, we got Kaden on thing. And then I saw something else he would c
ompletely love... and I justified it by saying I was going to save it for his birthday present. (Which is 104 days away)... what did I do??? I wrapped both of them! We love giving Kaden good gifts! Seeing the joy in his eyes... it's priceless. We know it's not all about gifts... and I think Kaden would be so content with just the one gift... at this age he wouldn't question "where's my other gifts?" "What about this or that that I wanted????" I think that's the coolest part we just want to give because it brings him joy. Pure joy!
How cool is it to think that's how Christ is??? He loves us sooooo deeply that he wants to bring us pure joy? He wants us to experience HIS gifts... the ones that He knows we need? I think as we get older we start to desire things... may not be even good gifts... but God knows so much better... he knows the things we really need and even want. As I lay here watching my baby sleeping he totally trusts in his parents and knows we have the best in mind for him. And I pray this year that I can peacefully rest in my Savior and know that he has the best things in mind for me. I want to live in the daily joy that Christ has for me. And I want to be able to share that joy to those around me... especially my son... that he may grow up in this beautiful joy that God has for him... that he desires God's gifts. And that we will all continue to live in an anticipation and excitement for the things of God!!! Merry Christmas!!! We are very blessed.
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