The holidays....some holidays I wish would come and go quicker than I can push them through. The holidays are all about the people and when someones missing it just simply is not the same.
Our family has spent the past 2 years split because of our situation. This year....we are finally back together again! I look back over the past 2 years and I can't believe we haven't all been together in one room....it's something small to some people but overwhelming to me.
Old traditions are gone for us and this year we will start a new one. Gladly I must say! Not that my family ever really over did the present thing....but this year it's genuinely about being together to celebrate Christ's birth---in the same room. It wont be cozy, there wont be food, there wont be Christmas lights, shoot...there wont even be privacy, but we will be spending a short time together. I never in a million years thought I would spend my Christmas in a prison, eating from the vending machine (if there's something in it this time), and watched by guards and other inmates. BUT---it is what it is and I couldn't be more excited. Time with my parents, my brother, and my hot man....all IN ONE ROOM. Ill cry, I cry just typing this because my heart is bursting with excitement! I'll leave with fulfillment and sorrow for what isn't and what will be....but it's time we will have spent together.
I will profess until my death that the Lord has a plan and a purpose for this season. He has shown faithful to my family and it's for his glory! I pray before 2016 our Christmas traditions will change back to "normal" but for now.....in with the new-out with the old!!!
Road Trip to Wisconsin---be ready dad because it's going to be amazing!
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