Merry Christmas!! You know you're growing up when you wake up on Christmas morning at 9AM and you don't get around to opening presents until 11AM. I've been putzing around the house for over an hour, putting on Christmas music, lighting a fire in the fireplace, trying to roust my sister out of bed, etc. If Christmas morning isn't manic, at least it's relaxing. I guess at some point we start carring what we look like in those Christmas morning pictures that our grandkids will eventually look at. I remember the days when I would have gladly ripped through my presents in my underwear and have been proud of it! Now we all have to get dressed up, look in the mirror, and brush our teeth.
The Christmas Eve communion service at my parents church last night was lovely. It's awlays my favorite service of the year. We got there late and nearly had to stand up in the back the whole time.

"Long lay the world in sin and error pinning,
'til he appeared, and the soul felt it's worth.
A thrill of hope, a weary world rejoices
for yonder breaks a new and glorious dawn.
Fall on your knees, oh hear the angel's voices
tonight divine, oh the night when Christ was born."

Merry Christmas and may the God of grace be with you and your family.