I... Can't... Wait

     1 to 3 inches of snow expected. I know not everyone gets excited at the prospect of snow, but I always have. As a child it meant many things. School closed, sledding, snowball fights, hot cocoa, and so much more. As an adult... the list is pretty much the same. Yes, teachers are just as excited about snow days. To be honest, my favorite thing about snow now, is the snow. I just love the way it looks, I love the cold, and I love the way snow sounds. Next time it snows, really snows, go outside where it is quiet and just listen. You won't be disappointed.

     Excited, that is what we should be. Kids get it right. Ask a kid if they are excited about Christmas and you are almost guaranteed to get an emphatic, "Yes!" for an answer. Ask an adult and the results won't be as certain. So what changed? Why do we stop looking forward to Christmas as much as we did as a child? We should try to recapture that anticipation we had as children. This season before Christmas is Advent, the time when we prepare for the coming of the Christ child. This should be a time of great anticipation. We are anticipating the day that all of history, all of eternity, changed with the birth of a baby in a backwater town outside Jerusalem. I know we are all carrying baggage as we make our way through this year. Jesus doesn't promise to take that baggage away, but He does promise to help you carry it and He promises that His yoke (future post about yokes coming) is easy and His burden is light. So I am not going to tell you to lay your burdens down, I know that is no easy task. I will tell you to let Jesus help you shoulder them. That is what we have to look forward to; that is why we should be looking forward with excitement.