12.24.2008
I'm feeling contemplative tonight...
I'm contemplating...
...a recent conversation with a friend.
...what my life needs to look like in order to accomplish certain goals.
...what my "lesser" goals need to be in order to accomplish my "greater" goals.
...the awesome gift that the Lord gave to me and all mankind: His Son, Jesus Christ.
...life, and how it is actually worth living if it is lived for Christ and follows God's will.
It's Christmas Eve, and my family and myself read the Christmas story (from Luke this year), and sang Christmas carols. (I had a random thought...my sisters both play harp, my brother plays piano, and I play both guitar and tin whistle. I could record my sisters playing harp, and myself playing tin whistle, and then get the necessary cables for our keyboard and my dad's guitar to connect them to a computer. My little brother could use the keyboard as a MIDI synthesiser, and I could play straight into the computer on the guitar. Between the four of us kids, we could have a quintet.) Now I'm sitting in my room, contemplating STUFF. In years past, I thought more about what I was getting rather than what I was giving. This year, however, I have a job. I have money from that job...or rather had money. I had a tremendous amount of fun shopping for my family. I have yet to even really wonder for more than a fleeting moment what I will be getting. That's a good thing...it shows that I have changed my mindset....
Anyway, I have to wrap those gifts now, and then probably get some sleep...or read some more of The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy. Good book, I will have to put up a "review" sometime.
Merry Christmas!
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