Tonight was fun to see. We read in Matthew in the Bible how Jesus told the disciples that the sheep on his right hand were those who fed and clothed and served Him on earth and explained that "inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Beautiful beautiful scripture, one of my very favorites.
So we talked about how Christmas is Jesus' birthday and if we want to give Him a present, the best thing would be for us to serve others. We started a kindness chain. Every time someone in the family does something kind we record the act on a strip of paper. Then on Christmas Eve, we string all these strips of paper together in a chain of kindness and gifts we have given to Jesus this month. The kids get super excited. In fact, we ended the meeting and within 3 minutes, there were already two strips with kind acts written on them. So this really works!!! :) Then they wanted to draw secret service names for the week too which we did. Each person has a another person in the family to secretly serve all week long. Great meeting, great times with the family.
This evening was the first time there were some conflicts with our time. Our oldest is overwhelmed about a huge test tomorrow, Dustin walked in from work late, and the four year old was having trouble finishing her dinner. But everyone settled and calmed while we sang our Christmas carol and said our prayer. Just when you think there is no way to add one more thing to an evening (like a Christmas devotional) you realize that one more thing might be the most important of all the things.
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