Every year at Christmas I tend to reflect on how fast life is flying by. I think about my childhood Christmases, the magic and wonder, how perfect those days were. They remain untouched in my memory, nothing can compare to those Seasons. Then, I tend to fast forward through my teen year Christmases, preferring not to dwell on them. They were so full of un-met longings and dashed hope, those days when I so desperately wanted Christmas to be what it was for me as a child. And it just wasn't, because it couldn't be. But, its when I get to the recent Christmas memories that it always strikes me: time is truly flying! Was it really 9 years ago that I was heading to Sweden after Christmas for Bible School? Or 6 years ago that I was in college? It's been 3 years since Aaron and I shared our first Christmas as a married couple. These years just come and go, and the seasons go faster and get more full. This Christmas, I can't help but think on the changes this upcoming year holds. Is it even possible that next Christmas, just a short year from now, we will be parents? After this Christmas, for every Christmas throughout our lives we will play the sacred role our parents hold in our lives to some child. Some child we don't even know yet, some child who is already out there, somewhere. Some child that already has a name, a face, ten fingers and toes, a smile, a laugh, and a future... With us.
Some Pictures of Christmas 2010:
