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My topic for today’s Friday Favorites is taking time to enjoy the real meaning of Christmas. Let me explain. Today’s post will most likely be my last for 2013. As we approach the end of the year I find that I am ready for a rest, both mentally and physically. I am already enjoying Christmas time this year much more than usual simply because of my job change and exit from retail. But I want to make sure that my focus remains on God’s love and how it was expressed with the sending of the Christ child so many years ago. This year, I have an opportunity to really experience Christmas as never before and I don’t want to miss it.
With some additional time to rest and reflect I plan to catch up on my reading, enjoy the company of my family and friends and focus on renewing my mind and body for the start of 2014. It’s been an amazing year and I remain excited and expectant about what God is going to do. He has been so good to my family and I and I must continue to proclaim His love and His mercy both with my mouth and the way that I live my life.
To all of you that are travelling this Holiday season I pray for your safe return. To all of you who are visiting places where there is tension and strife I pray that God’s love may heal and wipe away any record of past wrongs. And to every single one of you I pray that you would grow in the grace and knowledge of God and that the full weight of God’s great love would be made known to you this Christmas season.
Merry Christmas everyone, I will see you in 2014!