John 10:10
“I am come…..so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
I have been thinking about the verse in John a lot lately. Jesus Christ came in the form of an innocent baby and completely won the victory over death. What an awesome, non-comprehensible paradox of love!
Tomorrow, (Christmas Eve!) we leave early for Grandma and Grandpa Pierpont’s house. It’s their 50th wedding Anniversary!!! It’s definitely something to celebrate as so many couples now days don’t last long at all much less 50 years! They have surly been examples to their children and Grandchildren of faithfulness and love not just to each other but also to God. Their story is so cute of how they met at a Sunday school picnic….
I just want to list some of my favorite Christmas memories:
Christmas Eve candle light service and the luminaries that lined the walk up to our old Church in the country, our second Christmas tree that we put on the porch of our country home in Ohio to welcome our family (I would sit out there by the light of the tree and wait for them to arrive), The “Christmas Star” Dad made and risked his life to hang in the gable end of our barn one Christmas, the “charley brown Christmas tree” Kyle cut for us our hardest Christmas ever but has now become a distant fun memory ( we put the lights on it and it fell over), peppermint patties from Jane, the Beautiful Christmas wreath Mom got we hung on the house and could see from town ( I remember thinking it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen),the small town Christmas pageant in the town hall of Chesterville, getting the tree and watching the lady make our wreath with fragrant pine and plaid Christmas bows, sledding on a clear, starry night to the sound of the train whistle, listening to “The Polor Express” read by Dad, listening to my pop up book “The Night Before Christmas” read on Christmas Eve, a craft show called “Christmas In The Country” this has to be one of my favorite memories of all time we would go to this old barn filled with country crafts and we would walk through and drink hot mulled cider, setting out the manger scene every Christmas in the bay window of the parsonage…
Make a memory this Christmas and I hope everyone has a beautiful love filled day.
Merry Christmas,
Holly Allene Pierpont
“And Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19
