"Christ", the reason for the season.

GREETING;
As we are entering into the Christmas season I pray that we are entering in with a greatfull heart. I am greatfull for the year that the Lord has given me and my family and I hope you can say the same . I know that Christmas can be a sad time for those that may have lost a love one over the course of the year. My prayers and my heart goes out to you. Cathy and .I understand all to well what that means.This year I loss a step father in law who was a very dear man and in years passed we loss a son. It is very difficult to get in to the Christmas spirit with a grieving heart as we miss our love ones. But I know that if they died with the Lord we will see them again and I do look forward to that as well as I know that many of you do. I remember the first year that Daniel was killed I thought about him spending Christmas with the Lord and that how he must of felt as Heaven was rejoicing over the birth of Christ. I don't think we can come close to comprehend how beautifull Heaven is . Grace ,Paul knew about Grace when he had prayed on three diffrent times for the Lord to take away the thorn in the flesh, But God said my Grace is sufficiency for you. Christ is the only one that can mend a broken heart if you are a child of the Lord's fall on Him let Him help you to heal ,He is the only one that can .I know that there are suport groups out there that can help also we have family members to help,but they can't take away the hurt only Christ can do that. Psalm 46 has allways been a comfort to me, in verse one it states that God is my refuge and my strengh always ready to help in times of trouble.I know that when Daniel died I tried to carry all the pain myself .I thought that thats what it ment to being a strong christian.But the Lord kept telling me to stand still . But when you are hurting that's hard to do.In verse ten he said , stand still and know that I am GOD.the only way you are going to be able to with stand the hurt is to stand still and realize that you can't make it alone and that the Lord is our refuge and that is where we find rest for our weary soul.I believe that the Lord is speaking to some one because this is not what I intended to write about . If I can help you by sharing how the Lord ministerd to me, are if I can pray for you let me know.In the Magnificat: Mary said Oh , how my soul praises the lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! NLT How could she know how blessd she was for God chose her to give birth to the Savior for all man kind. Don't let grief or problems or anything else stop you from being able to worship the King of Kings the Lord of Lords this Christmas. It is not in how much we recieve or in how much we buy, that can bring us joy , But in knowing the child that was born in a stable as our savior.The angels told the shepherds in the field that"Don't be afraid !"he said."I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.The Savior- yes ,the Messiah, the Lord-has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! Luke 2:10-11 NLT . So let your heart rejoice , let your spirit sing out and share your faith with someone this Christmas. Tell them about the "reason for the season"and keep looking up He is coming back! God Bless you and your family .Oh I told you that our family lost Jimmy this year and Liz ,Cathy's mother is fighing cancer ,"WE thank everyone for prayers for Liz"But the Lord blessed us with a new family member and this will be Will Allan's first Christmas, he loves to look at the lights but his big sister this year getting in to Christmas, and to be able to see Christmas through the eyes of a child is a great joy!!! Mery Christmas from the Heath family.