Dec 17, 2016

Christmas Past

CHRISTMAS. The word is beautiful, conjuring up many beautiful memories and images in my mind. Although I know it's that time of year, it doesn't much feel like it since I'm not doing the "normal" Christmas activities of decorating (not even a tree!), shopping and baking. Nor are there any family members around and, truth be told, that's a huge factor to enjoying alot of the Christmas season in that "normal" way, right?

But I am reading Christmas devotionals and listening to Christmas music. A few years ago I had my first experience of  "a different Christmas" and honestly?...it's one of the best I've ever had. So I'm not depressed about any of this, this Christmas, because I discovered that it can be a wonderfully blessed time.

The purpose of this post was not to say all of the above but just to post some photos from Christmases of the past few years. I was reminded of that when I was searching for a certain picture and...wow!...I thought, I can't let those photos go to waste, sitting there not blessing anyone. So, yeah, I think most of them are pretty beautiful. Blame it on my friend the camera.

























































And one final one.

Merry Christmas!