Day 4 of the Wives of Faith Blog Carnival, and we are to blog about a gift we have recieved. The only catch is it can't be something you can wrap!
My favorite non-material gifts happened nearly 2 years apart to the day...the first was that my, at the time, boyfriend proposed to me on December 23rd, 2007. This counts because I didn't get a ring until February :-). And the second was our son, Mckinley. His due date was December 25th, 2010. We had actually joked once about having a "Christmas baby" before we started having babies, because my husband is a Valentine's baby! I had elected to be induced on the 21st so that we could spend Christmas at home. He must have agreed with the day that I had picked because 4 hours before my induction was set to start, my water broke at home in bed!
Both of my gifts have to do with love...one, where my husband and I promised to become man and wife, and the other where we brought our son...another little love..into the world together. This was the second time my husband got to actually deliver our babies.
My loves are my entire life! And near Christmas every year I have these memories to remind me how it all began....I was promised to be my husband's bride....
and the birth of a baby!
No, I do not compare my son's birth to that of Jesus, but it is still my personal reminder that Christmas is a day of Sacrifice, Love, and New beginnings!
I guess December has really become a very commercial month, with all the comparisons that are made between a "good" Christmas and the number of gifts you buy for the ones you love. And now that we have a baby who's birthday is so close to this holiday, you would not imagine how many people say, "I would hate having my birthday then! I wouldn't get any presents!" I pray this is not the legacy that I leave my children. I want them to see Christmas differently!
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