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FELIZ NAVIDAD Amigos!

Here we are another year over and at the most wonderful time of the year!

ok, seriously, I'll stop singing!

I just wanted to share a few thoughts that have been bouncing around my head with the sugar plums.

This year I have really begun to embrace the idea of Jesus being born for us, to save us, to rescue us. Now God could have simply said, "This is a waste of time", and wiped out the whole human race and started over, but instead he had a different plan and a different future. He wanted to show the Universe He was God and He could save His creation and bring them back to Him. But that required a sacrifice, the death of someone so innocent and pure that it would cover all the sins of the world. Now that is pure and that is a lot of iniquity.

But God cared that much, to give a living sacrifice, to bring us back to Him. PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE!!!

The other idea I've come to better understand is the idea of Jesus being brought into the world the way he was. His mom was young and scared, unprepared and single. He was born in a town known for its nastiness and crude citizens. He was born in a place where animals used the bathroom and in a box animals ate out of. Now that is a low birth, but it was part of God's plan. It symbolized how Jesus could go to the lowest places and still bring hope. How God was not required to be big and flashy to bring salvation. Even in the heart of darkness, God can still bring light.

It blows my mind at how creative God is and how awesome His plan was and it only gets me fired up to see his plan for us and our generation. Amazing things are done in those who desire and pursue God's plan above all else.

There will definitely be more blogs about this as we celebrate the great amazing birth and the beginning of a life that was ultimately meant for death!

Now, what is your favorite part of Christmas?

Adam T.