When Kami was in Florida to take care of getting her French VISA, we decided it best to go ahead and have her purchase our Christmas presents. (Too expensive here!) Both of our parents also filled a suitcase full of Christmas presents of which Kami brought back with her on her trip. Needless to say, we have many wrapped presents under our Christmas tree, ready to be torn open and Christmas seems so far away!!!
It the spirit of the season, I thought I would share with you one of our traditions. We learned this tradition from some dear friends in New York. We have a Christmas stocking for Jesus in which are our Christmas gifts to Him from last year. Last Christmas, we each privately wrote down on a piece of paper our Christmas gift we wanted to give to Christ. (It could be to read your Bible through, or give Him your besetting sin or bad habit. It could be to praise Him each and every day of the year, basically whatever you want to give Him.) Needless to say, we each gave him a gift and no one knows what it is except for Christ. This Christmas, we will take out our "gift" from last year and we will read them and share them as a family. Then we will put in our new "gifts" for this coming year.
This past Sunday, we are really trying to emphasize the Christ in the Christmas Season! Joshua prepared a lesson in French on the Candy Cane story.
We have quite a bit planned for a Christmas outreach, but we will post on that in the next update!
