Dec 1st - not the first day of Advent, but the first day of the Advent calenders....

John 1: 1-5

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.  In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

In this crazy month, it is too easy to forget about what I am working so hard to celebrate.  I become obsessed with getting the presents bought, making the perfect Christmas for the boy, getting the house clean (as if!), trying to co-ordinate who is doing what for Christmas.  It is so totally not what December should be about.  Yes, those things are part of celebrating Christmas, but our focus should be on Christ and not on the mass of “things to be done” that can make us lose our focus.

Every year, I fill our Christmas advent calendars with chocolates and hang them to tantalize us every morning.

This year, I have put a verse or picture behind every choccie in the hope of making us stop and think about what we are counting down towards.

I am going to try and have a thought every day for advent and share it on this blog – I hope I manage to work it through.  When I did the Lent blog, I got so much out of it.

I really pray that this year, my Christmas will totally focus on Jesus. After all, that’s what it’s all about.