Last night, the Fantasy Football Season ended.
This year I played in a league called, “CRM” for CrossRoad Ministries – a league made-up by one of my students and including numerous students, Pastor Gerry, and Pastor Jason Butler – my friend and fellow district-pastor.
If you’ll look at the image below you’ll notice that yours truly, “Cotton Sheets” won the championship!
The stockings are down, the ornaments are in boxes, the tree is packed back up. The Moravian star is even down in the basement.
It’s not even 1PM on Christmas day and our house is sans-decoration.
It’s kinda sad, really, but with our next few days’ schedule we didn’t have much of a choice.
Full day of packing and readying for our trip tomorrow. We hit the road bright-and-early Thursday morning with four of our studnents, a 12-passenger van, a baby and a week’s worth of luggage for a ‘road-trip-and-a-half’ to Orlando, Florida for the Wesleyan Youth Convention, SetApart ’07.
Can’t wait!
Christmas-lyrics dance around in my noggin this evening as a mixture of egg-nog, boneless buffalo wings, and cheese curds keep me awake at this hour realizing that Christmas is here and will be ‘over’ much quicker than it came.
As we tucked Ella into her crib tonight a few hours before Christmas it was fitting to realize the gift we’ve been given – our daughter allows us much-more insight into the gift God gave us in his Son, Jesus.
From our family to yours we wish you – the readership of stevansheets.com – a Very Merry Christmas!
PS – What Christmas lyrics are stuck in your head?
Thanks to a family in the church, Jessica and I were able to borrow and finally watch “The Nativity Story” on DVD tonight to bring in the Christmas-holiday!
It was very fitting that at 12AM Christmas morning Jesus had literally JUST been birthed by Mary in the stable. Jess exclaimed, “it’s 12:01” just as Joseph lifted Jesus up into the air and gave his hearty-laugh!
The movie was great! We both enjoyed the Mary-Joseph storyline. We were, of course, quick to point out some of the inconsistencies with the Biblical narrative as we’ve come to memorize and act-out our entire lives. The wisemen showing up at the stable, them returning via “a different route” on their own accord, and other ‘mistakes’ gave us opportunity for ‘I knew they’d do that’ glances throughout the movie.
One scene I really enjoyed was the palm-reader-lady that gave Mary some sort of food while they were en-route to Bethlehem. She “read her palm” somewhat exlaiming something about the Baby inside and then her true-colors showed as she exclaimed to Joseph something like, “There’s nothing better than seeing your face in one younger” – identifying her as a false-source of future-telling. I liked that.
It has been told to us on more-than-one occasion that the Wisemen provide the “comic relief” of the film – and they did live up to that standard. I loved THEIR worship of Jesus almost as much as the Shepherds – both showed genuine ‘awe’ as worshipers.
I’m glad we chose to finally watch this film as the minutes changed from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day.
I missed this during Sunday Night Football last night. Thank goodness for YouTube!
