So it is the day after Christmas....enough said? Actually this Christmas has been full of adventure! I brought my wife and kids to see my in-laws. They live in Maine, so we thought we had a pretty good chance of having a white Christmas. We were not disappointed. The snow has been nice, and aside from sliding off the road into a ditch and tearing up my front fender, I have enjoyed it as well. This is the land of my nativity, and for me, it holds a sort of magic.

There is nothing better than coming back to the place where you grew up. Everywhere you look there are memories. I like memories. They are a gift from God, that allows us to remember the days gone by.

I am sitting at the dining room table in my in-law's house and it is Sunday afternoon. All is pretty quiet. I tried to take a nap, which is not something usually in my Sunday afternoon schedule. It wasn't in my schedule today either. Oh well!

This Christmas I am thirty years old. This is the age when Christ started his earthly ministry following his baptism in the Jordan River by John the Baptist. I wonder how many years my ministry will go on from here? When I think of all that Jesus accomplished in the three and a half years of his ministry I am keenly aware that time is not the enemy. It is not a lack of time that affects what we can accomplish for God. Rather, it is a lack of God. I mean a lack of Holy Spirit power.

As I look toward the New Year, I wonder what I will allow God to do through me in the next twelve months. I wonder where I will be sitting, and what I will be writing, next Christmas? Will it be regret for wasted time? Will it be memories of the goodness of our Lord? Somehow, I think the answer will be up to me. God is willing. HE is still looking for men to use. I hope He finds one of them in me!

Merry Christmas!!!