Trust your Christmas was one to remember, and those memories will be good.

I know it has been a difficult time for many and it seems like the two most family oriented holidays – Thanksgiving and Christmas – can be particularly daunting when we are away from our family, no matter the reason.  Those I know, are in my thoughts and prayers.

We had Teresa, Deed and Josh over for Christmas day dinner – all the others were tied up.  Did talk with them and they were fine, bit of illness in a couple of the families, but seems like we have that every year.

The dinner was a break of over 30+ years of tradition, we normally have our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve – we started when the children were very little – saves a lot of stress on Christmas day, then just have snack trays for the day; everyone eats when they want.

But Carla had to work until 1430 and no one else was available on the 24^th, so it made since to break with that tradition.

We have been fortunate, weather wise, it hasn’t gotten anywhere near the cold that has been forecast (yet.)  No complaints from me.  Fog is just now lifting at 1200, and a bit of sun shone through for a few minutes.

Thus our day begins, have some more writing and just relaxing today to do.

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“I can only hope that you are wise enough, desirous enough and spiritual enough to face up to the truth that every day is another day of spiritual preparation, another day of testing and discipline with our heavenly destination in mind.”  AW Tozer

1 John 3:2-3 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

³ And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.  KJV

While I ‘could’ go on and on about this subject – and have, a lot, in this past year – Tozer says it best.

It is a daily decision on our part – indeed sometimes a minute by minute decision – to go forward with God, stagnate, or fall back.

What happened yesterday is over.  We can use it to build on, learn from or ask forgiveness over, but today is a new day – and as Anne of Green Gables stated “a new day with no mistakes in it.”

As we prepare our list of desired results for 2017 let us put at the top of our list, an improved relationship with our Lord every single day.

Later, Art (-: