Christmas Blessings

I know, I know...it's been since the summer since I updated this blasted blog, but what a busy year it has been! Give grace, dear reader, give grace!

Last night was the final performance of our Cornerstone Christmas Production...our first Madrigal Feast...and it was the final culmination of three months and literally several thousand combined man hours of music rehearsals, planning meetings, set designing and building, food preparations, decorating, choreography...you get the point. What a wonderful display of love and commitment from a team of people who not only talk about their love of the Lord, but put it into the action of their craft.

Of all the things that one could do in life, I get the privilege of doing this with this group of people. No, we aren't perfect...we all have flaws and, like artists will from time to time, we let our idiosyncrasies show in public. But if there is a more genuinely loving group of people on a church Arts team anywhere, I would like to see them...because this team's at the top.

Once again, the joy of the journey proves to be remarkable.

And now as we turn our attention a little more inward to the celebration of Christmas as a family and Kelli, Hunter and I get to slow down (a little) and reflect upon God's blessings in our lives, my prayer for you is that you, maybe for the first time, can begin to grasp how beautifully scandolous God putting on flesh for our sake really was. God Incarnate...Deity wrapped in skin...perfect flesh-covered feet touching and walking on tainted soil.

For you...for me...for love.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.