Unspeakable Joy

For those of you still wondering, yes I did make it through finals week alive. I even passed all my finals and classes! In fact I got a 96% on my logic final, a 98% on my counseling final, and a 95% on my Biblical Foundations of Ministry final. Those are the big ones, the other 3 I did fine on and my photography final I passed with flying colors as well.
For the overall grades, well I got 4 A's and 3 B's. There were a couple pluses and minuses in there, but overall that's what they were. I was very content with those grades.

And so I'm home, safe and sound. The trip to Alec had to be post-poned due to car issues, but nevertheless I'm home. So far I've gotten in some good sleep, some good baby holding time, as well as had some dental work done. Yeah, I don't feel like talking about that one.

I've also found the Christmas "joy" I was looking for. Thursday night while still at school, a bunch of us went out caroling around the neighborhood and gave every house we sang at a tract. It was a pretty cold night, but the last house we stopped at left a memory in my heart. A lady came to the door and was soon followed by her husband holding their adorable little boy. The little boy couldn't have been more than 2 if that even. As they stood on their porch listening to us sing they kept looking at the little boy's face. I couldn't help but think that this must have been one of the first times he had ever seen car0lers. As I watched him stare with big eyes at us as his parents kept smiling over his amazement, I realized that I had found it. I had found the wide-eyed amazement joy that I had been searching for. In this little boy's face was the joy of Christmas. It's not about feelings, but about true amazement and joy over what the season is about. Jesus Christ was born, but the only faces that held amazement were of his parent, some shephards, a few stray animals, maybe a few other random folks. Yet the angels proclaimed on of their greatest messages that night, one that we should still proclaim today:

"Glory to God in the Highest!"

May you give the glory to God for the joy of Christmas.