Life...

     This year is the first year that there are no gifts under our tree. And this is the first year that I'm totally ok with it. I don't say this to get sympathy. Please don't take it that way. I say it because for the first time ever in my 46 years I've come to realize that I've always had what I need. The gift of life. Life cannot be bought, bargained, or begged for. It is a gift. My life forever changed this year. Physically, emotionally, and financially. Things I once thought were a definite are now uncertain. But we have LIFE! God gave his son so we could have eternal life. Did you see how God slipped that word in there? Life. Life is what it's all about. Life while we are here and life in the hereafter. So this year, celebrate life. I know I will. I will celebrate the life of my beautiful husband, my two healthy sons and for my life for being able to see it all,  for yet another Christmas. We have nothing without life.