I hope you all had a memorable Christmas, whether good or bad. The fact that Jesus left His glorious home above, full of praises for Him, adoration and love, to be born in a stinky, cold cave like barn, to poor, young, innocent parents. To then grow up in a mean, selfish spirited society full of God haters, knowing He would die for those exact people and us, not much different than them. Suffer a cruel, unfair judgement and penalty for being who He truly was; our Saviour.
Our Christmas was truly different but I've learnt through my saved years that God has a genuine sense of humor.
We had no running water in the house and the toilets had been taken out to get things ready for the plumber. That was ok because my parents live only 5 minutes away, so we were taking our showers there and getting water there. As for the purging needs, we had a toilet in the R.V.... until it got bitter cold and froze what was inside the reservoir. :/ This meant we could no longer use our "facility". We called everywhere to see if we could find a place to live which would be cheap for the next month or so. Long story short, I went to Lawton's drugs and got a "chapeau", meant for measuring urine, and placed that on the toilet. (Sorry for the details lol)
This allowed us to stay in the RV since every other place wanted to charge between 1295$ and 2400$. We prefered saving that money and putting it on the house, plus, this would keep the momentum on the finishing of the house.
On the 24th, the plumber came to install a temporary toilet but with the cold in the house, the water pump cracked... so we were back to the "chapeau".
Our pastor and his wife invited us to stay over at their house for a few days until we had our "facility" fixed.
This is where the humor begins. I thought that we should get our pastor and his wife a gift to thank them for their hospitality. My husband called to say he had thought the SAME, so we had two gifts to give them. When we arrived at our pastor's and his wife's home, we gave them our gift which was wrapped, and they brought us to our room which, on the dresser, was the SAME gift, but not wrapped. My husband and I chuckled as we waited for Mrs. Seely to unwrap their gift. She thought it was histaricle since with the size of our city and the choice of stores and gifts, what are the odds of getting the SAME gift?
The next morning, we prepared breakfast and got ready for the opening of gifts by wrapping some gifts. Our family gifts were in a Costco bag. Soon the bottom of the tree was filled with beautifully wrapped gifts, then we put the children and our gifts under. To our amazement, every single gift had the SAME wrapping paper.
HELLO!?!
In the midst of a vastly different Christmas for our family, God found a way to bring not only some humor, but some SAMEness.
Today is New Year's Eve. We are expecting a blizzard tonight and tomorrow but the roof of the old part of the house is almost all shingled and the addition has roofing, the interior damage should be minimal.
I've put up more photos in our album, be sure to check it out.
I want to extend warm hopes of a great year 2009 for you and your family. I pray that you will either find the narrow way that brings comfort, peace and salvation (John 14:6, "I am the way, the Truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me." said Jesus), or stand firm and draw closer to Him as this year will pass by us just as quickly as 2008 has.
Look for YOUR purpose.
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