Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
A Backward Glance...
The whole time I was driving the 190 miles from college to Dallas, scraps of the song I'll be home for Christmas kept floating through my thoughts. I LOVE being home with my wonderful, huggable family for this vacation!
I can't help but remember last year. Christmas of 2007 was a painful time, full of emotional upheaval, sobbing to God in the freezing garage because a friend was leaving on bad terms, I was achingly lonely, and Dad was emptying his dresser into a suitcase, leaving our family for an indeterminate time. He and Mom needed a break from each other.
The Christmas before that, I was in the tiny country of Moldova on the opposite side of the world, experiencing the familiar joy of Jesus' birthday through the jarringly unfamiliar customs of another culture.
When I think of what my amazing God has done in my family, in my circumstances, in my heart since then, I think I could just dance forever! How amazing is the love and care of God, that he carries us, not OVER our problems, but THROUGH them, intimately with us, our Emmanuel. My parents are back together, my friend recently called me to renew the relationship, and I have been surrounded this year with some of the most uplifting friendships I've ever had...and in the journey to this point I have learned to trust in ways that I never dreamed.
I can't help but remember last year. Christmas of 2007 was a painful time, full of emotional upheaval, sobbing to God in the freezing garage because a friend was leaving on bad terms, I was achingly lonely, and Dad was emptying his dresser into a suitcase, leaving our family for an indeterminate time. He and Mom needed a break from each other.
The Christmas before that, I was in the tiny country of Moldova on the opposite side of the world, experiencing the familiar joy of Jesus' birthday through the jarringly unfamiliar customs of another culture.
When I think of what my amazing God has done in my family, in my circumstances, in my heart since then, I think I could just dance forever! How amazing is the love and care of God, that he carries us, not OVER our problems, but THROUGH them, intimately with us, our Emmanuel. My parents are back together, my friend recently called me to renew the relationship, and I have been surrounded this year with some of the most uplifting friendships I've ever had...and in the journey to this point I have learned to trust in ways that I never dreamed.
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