Merry Christmas!

Glory to our Lord Jesus Christ!

Hark the Herald Angels Sing!

May your Christmas be filled with hope and great joy

as you celebrate with your family and friends

this greatest gift mankind has ever received…

God’s only Son Jesus Christ.

December Rain

I have not posted much this month, December is always a bittersweet month for me.

On December ... there were losses that brought tears in my eyes... my brother, my baby and recently a cousin. There are also joys that brought smiles in my heart, my gifted niece's birth who shares her birthday with the brother I lost, an uncle she never met.

I shiver when the rain falls in December, it's always a constant reminder of the tears I shed for the people I care about.

But I will never forget that on this month, we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. The angels are having the biggest party in heaven this month!

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.