Through experience I have found that my best Christmas memories happen before Christmas Day arrives. So, I want to share my top 5 memories from this season.
1. Delivering 90 bicycles in one afternoon with Ron and Tony to two area elementary schools. There is no greater joy than to see kids faces light up when they walk into a room of bikes knowing one of them is soon to be theirs. All these bikes came from Rock Creekers who give to our Bikes for Christmas drive we do every year. Credit for the Bikes for Christmas has to go to Bob Mack who started our church doing this seven or eight years ago.
2. Visiting a young man at Pulaski County jail one afternoon and hearing how God is working in his life in spite of his mistakes. I'm always amazed every time I do jail visits how God uses the loss of freedom to get our attention and bring the focus of our life back onto Him and what's really important. I always get much more than I give anytime I do these visits.
3. Spending two and a half hours last Sunday evening here at Rock Creek with my 11 year old granddaughter with over 600 excited kids and their parents at Christmas at the Creek. This is an annual event hosted by our Kidz Department that really gets an old guy like me jazzed about Christmas and experiencing the joy of Jesus and life.
4. Having the privilege of delivering a Christmas card from our couples group with a gift card in it to a couple in our LIFE group who have been struggling for 19 months due to an accident he had. They are dear, sweet people and wonderful neighbors and to help lighten their load made my day.
5. Having our couples Christmas party with our LIFE group and doing a Dirty Santa gift exchange is a blast. I highly recommend if you're not in a group find one in 2009. It will make a world of difference in handling the pressures of life.
Merry Christmas.
Friday, December 19, 2008
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