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This Christmas we had the awesome privileged of having our whole family at our home! My parents and brother came and my in-laws also came from the USA, although there were not enough beds for everyone we had a great time piling in and enjoy the early morning coffee and conversations then had fun cooking Christmas dinner for the 10 of us and a whole slew of other people for the special occasion!
I remember as a child going from one grandma's house to the other on Christmas and spending the whole day opening presents and eating, it was quite the fun filled! Since we have been a "family" in Ecuador, it has made the holidays a bit different but thank God we have been able to enjoy almost every holiday with family and definitely good friends that make the day even more special
I guess one of the hardest things being on the mission field is learning to adjust, especially during the holidays! However, I have found that it doesn't matter where in the world you are or who in the world you are with, if you are in the middle of God's will for your life, you will be HOME!

Are you not of more value than they?

As I started off my Bible reading today for this year, I was once again brought to my favorite passage of scripture in Matthew 6.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
I have found over recent years how anxiety has found ways of creeping into my life and there have been times that I have clenched onto this passage with everything in me. It has given me so much peace in knowing that my God created me just the way he wants me, how he cares for me even more than the birds in the sky or the grass on the ground and if he would consider the fact that the earth would be clothes, how much more would he care for my "clothing"!

As we start off this year, 2011, seek God first beyond what your worries or anxieties bring and he will give you everything you need (he knows what you need before you even ask) HAVE FAITH and BE THANKFUL, he will PROVIDE!