HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS

• The week before Christmas our small group held a birthday party for Jesus. It wasn’t the traditional birthday party with gifts, balloons, streamers, and birthday cake and ice cream (although we did have yummy desserts and we all brought a gift to give to a child who was in need) but a party to celebrate the birth of our Savior and reflect on the gifts we have been given from Him and what we are going to give Him in the coming year.
  
  Some of the gifts we received this year were:
  Restoration
  Opportunities to Serve Him – in Haiti, in the Dominican Republic, in Tampa
  Deliverance from physical harm in a car accident
  For our small group
  Healthy Pregnancies
  Passing milestone exams
  Healthy grandson
  The opportunity to learn and grow from our sisters in Christ
  Forgiveness
  
  Some of the gifts we are giving Him in 2010:
  
  To pursue Him with all our heart and soul
  More time in Church
  Give Him more of myself
  Open hearts to whatever He has in store
  Greater Faith
  Quiet time and personal relationships with Him
  Give up baggage so heart can be open
  Forgive others
  Study His Word more often
  Let Go – Let God
  
  The evening was a wonderful way to prepare for Christmas Day the following week. It was a reminder that Christ is Christmas and a wake up call to forget the commercialism, running here and there, and most of remain focus on the greatest gift we have or will ever receive…Jesus Christ!