advent

My blogging has been a bit uninspired lately.  It's not that our life right now is uninspiring, it's quite the opposite actually.  It's a busy and tiring season, and walking the fine line between writing interesting, meaningful things and guarding the privacy of our family takes more energy than I usually have right now.

This month, we are trying to figure out how we want the Christmas/Advent season to look for us as a family unit.  Not that we have to have it all figured out this year, or that it would even be possible considering the transitions the lie ahead of us.  I just desperately don't want Christmas to be about gifts, people, or traditions for our daughter.  Not that any of those things are inherently bad (they're good things, in fact!), but the purpose of Christmas in the Christian calendar is to celebrate the birth of Christ.  We certainly can do that with people, traditions, and gifts, but if they get in the way of feeling the weight of the incarnation, that the word of God became flesh and dwelt among men, then maybe it's not worth it.

Thus, during Advent we are working on figuring out how to make our time with people, our family life, the things we do, and the gifts we give a special reminder of the beautiful gift that we have been given in a Messiah who was fully God and fully man, our servant King, the Prince of Peace, our Redeemer: Jesus Christ.

Happy Advent, y'all.