A Charlie Brown Christmas

I feel a little like Charlie Brown this Christmas.

One: we have a Charlie Brown tree

(Did you know you can get free branches from tree farms and Wal-mart?)

Two: I feel more depressed by this Christmas season than joyful. 

And though I, like Linus, know the "true meaning" of Christmas I still feel the same. 

As you know we won't be going home for Christmas. Our friends, Alex and Liz, invited us to his family for Christmas day. We are so thankful and feel so blessed by their offer. Christmas day will definitely be full. 

I put up some Christmas decorations and we have presents under the tree, and I am thankful that our house is starting to feel like Christmas.

I feel the pressure for the true meaning of Christmas to be bigger and louder than the cultural Christmas. Yet how can a baby in a manger compare to cookies, presents, holiday cheer, and Santa?

Though I know that the baby in a manger becomes a Savior on a cross. And therefore there is hope!

For "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." 

Galatians 2:20

"Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us." Romans 8:34

So in the end I know it doesn't matter what I feel but rather what is TRUE.