I hope everyone had an awesome Turkey Day and that you've harmed as few people as possible on "knee them in the face" Friday. The Baker's had an awesome dinner yesterday in MN, and my stomach is still bulging from it (for my lovely critics, with names usually start with K and B, who would be quick to point to my always large belly, it has grown all the bigger). Andrea joined the ranks of America's Dumbest Idiots and stood in the cold for and hour and a half this morning to get a doorbuster (I enjoyed a wonderful warm bed and sleeping in). From the battlefield reports I've heard it's crazy out there. Our hyper two year old has been all over the place, and is especially enjoying singing Christmas songs with her cousins. She is having simply an amazing Thanksgiving.
I think sometimes we need a tad bit of a reminder that Christmas is not about waiting in lines, getting good deals, and spending lots of money to impress others and to make ourselves happy. It's certainly not about being so focused on buying stuff that we trample an innocent person to death (sadly, that actually happened today and I hope the people involved enjoy jail): http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=316fb59a-e2e7-40d2-a73d-01653a1aae01
It's about Christ coming to save us, to give us a gift of salvation that can not be bought. It's also about giving in a similar Christ like way. So think about God's ultimate "doorbuster" and give out of love, and nothing else, this Christmas season.
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Just want all to know I made lots of new friends standing outside of the store for an hour and a half! We politely entered the store in order of arrival and I was third!
- The Other Baker :)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you Andy! We all seem to need this reminder. I am too "old" and wise to go out in the cold dark predawn to wait in line for a chance at a cheap (take that as either definition) whatever that will be forgotten, and discarded. Christ never forgets, never discards, never disappoints. I am glad that Andrea had fun making new friends and I hope she was able to get a few "deals".
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