In memory:

My Grandmother Wildermuth passed away on this day many years ago......she is still fondly remembered by all of us!

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also graciously give us all things? (Romans 8:32).

The gift of time :)

Although we hear the same stories whenever we are together (we have joined that club!)....make no mistake about it......we are blessed beyond measure by the gift of time that we have with my aging parents. I thank God for them daily......we laugh....alot!

Yesterday we took my parents to transfer some funds from one bank in our home town to another in Dublin.....and we even talked Timmy into eating at Der Dutchman for his birthday!! He is not always the most willing participant in our escapades BUT his great love for me and anything mine is always evident and we all love him for that!!!!!

I am going on our annual shopping spree with Ashley this weekend and then on Wednesday to Toys-r-Us and Best Buy with the other 2 girls! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas:)

God with us

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,

John 1:1-5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. 

³ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 

John 1:8-14

⁹ That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. 

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. ¹¹ He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 

¹² But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: ¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 

Psalm 139: 23-24

“Search me, O God and know my heart;

 try me, and know my anxieties;

and see if there’s any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.”

The house is almost finished decorating.... the 3 trees go up today!

The babies are safely home from Disney Land and all is right with
my little world.

I love the Holidays and all that goes with it....but my greatest present
would be that the Love of Christ infuse the season with the hope that
only He can give :)