Positive Energy

Becky needs to write more uplifting blogs.

So. Here I go!

This season is awesome. I know people say that if it were all year long we would get sick of it. But I think this is sort of like how the millennium will be. More people will be charitable, kind, selfless ALL the time! With a general spirit of love. I could definitely go for that year round. It really isn't a bad thought when they say to keep Christmas in your heart all year long. But you know it doesn't have to be the "Spirit of Christmas", just the "Spirit of Christ".

Jameson and I were talking ourselves to sleep one night this week and we both admitted we'd been trying much harder to keep Christ in our daily lives. To make an effort to think about him and not just in a passing thought kind of way. I know it's been on my mind a lot especially since we found out about Chloe coming to our family. I knew I had to up my spirituality and learn more because I was going to be expected to teach her. So this first holiday season it has become even more apparent to me how important it is to remember what Christmas is all about. That is why every time Jameson sees a Nativity he likes I want to buy it. His mother collected them so they had them all over the house. I want to carry on this tradition. Maybe every year we're married we'll add a new one to the collection :)

Another reason I know that I've been trying to think of Christ more is because I've been overwhelmed lately with how blessed I am/we are. Fast Sunday we fasted for Jameson's applications to Graduate School. We've been waiting on one person's letters of recommendation and it was causing a lot of stress on Jameson and between us as a couple. You see... I wanted to drive down there and give her a piece of my mind and Jameson didnt think that would be a good idea. You can see why stress would build. So, the day after the fast Jameson got a phone call from the woman we'd been waiting for saying she was trying to get them done and needed his help :) What a relief to get such an immediate answer to a prayer!

We've been so blessed this year, and I guess I'll wait to list off some of the endless blessings for the new years/end year blog. But I am constantly so amazed at how blessed I've been to find such an amazing husband willing to sacrifice long hours for work and school as well as accept a heavy church calling and spend time being a father and a husband. I cannot believe how lucky I am to have him. And to have such a cheerful daughter crawling, climbing, walking, babbling, raspberrying, around the house.

This is more than happiness... this is joy.