Christmas Song...

Christmas is the best time of the year!!! I didn't grow up with a lot of traditions, but I always knew what Christmas was really about. It is my desire for my kids to know the same. (we added some fun traditions with it) We got Elf on the Shelf and the kids have just been loving it. My husband even had him hanging from the chandelier one morning. It was too funny. Every year we bake Jesus a birthday cake and sing him happy birthday. It's the most decorated cake I have ever seen, but we talk about Jesus while they do it. I told my kids that Santa brings gifts because he is celebrating Jesus birthday.

This has been a year of very new things for me. Not working (at an 8 to 5 job) has been different. It was the hardest decision I have ever made (because I am fearful) but yet God has blessed us in the midst. I have been able to do so much more photography and I have an amazing husband and great friends and clients who have supported me through it and for that I am thankful. But above all, God has taken me down a path I never could have imagined I would be. It's crazy looking back at how He strategically placed people in my life at a certain time.

What is Christmas to you? Right now, I want to take the opportunity to tell you what Christmas is to me. Christmas is knowing that God sent his Son as a tiny baby, knowing the future, because He loved us that much. It's the feeling you get when you hear that perfect song that makes you throw your hands up in praise. It's the feeling you get when you feel God next to you, guiding you. It's the forgiveness for everything He knew I would do and so much more....

I added a song, that I absolutely love, and I hope you do also. Listen to it, watch it, or close your eyes and just praise the God that came to earth so long ago, only to die on a cross for me.....for you......