Kick up your heals and shout

Well, 12 more days till Christmas and holding. :) I am so glad about this season even though it will be my first without mom our family's Santa Clause. Yes, old pop told me that he wasn't going to do anything this year for Christmas and I have to giggle a little bit because yes dad always earned the money for Christmas but as far as buying the tree and decorating it along with filling the limbs with all that loving care she put in her trees. Oh lord she loved to trim a tree. Every year she would put on Christmas carol music and put the lights on the tree after she and dad worked hard getting the trees to stand without falling. In the early years we had a few trees fall over but lots of years changed their ways till they were professional tree putter uppers.

Mom would load our Christmas tree's with decorations of old and new because she loved fragile and pretty things. We had bulbs from all four corners of the world and then would place an star on top of the tree. Every string of tinsel mom put on the tree with love after the tree could hold not one more light or ornament. Christmas will always be the brightest day of my years from now till the end of my life as if it hadn't been all of my life.

I do notice how people get sick and die around this time of the year and there is a lot of sadness and loneliness. For me it's the only day of the year that we as Christians celebrate the birth of our lord Jesus Christ. My lord and savior's day of birth isn't December 25th although it is our celebration day for his birth. Back in those days they used a different calendar and with time and leap years who can keep up with what day it was some 2007 years, soon to be 2008, years ago.

If you can just believe then forget what day it was, just know he was born and shout and scream about his birth, his perfect life, and death because without all that he did for us we would be doomed to the same fate as satin. Now, none of us need to feel like losers, because our lord lived and died on the cross to wash us all clean from sin and now we need not kill animals to sacrifice on the alter to cleans ourselves of sin Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for us all. Hallelujah