How Cute

Here is Malachi in my Grandma's garden on Christmas eve.

O Come All Ye Faithfull

Last night I picked up a book called O come all ye Faithfull. It is a book that tells you the history of a couple of Christmas carols. Coming to the first song in the book "O Come all ye faithful I was reading and singing along to the song. When I came to the second verse of this song which is:

God of God, Light of Light;

lo, he abhors not the vigins womb:

very God, begotten, not created;

Then it goes on with the chorus and follows on with the 3rd and 4th verses. It suprised me that this verse is left out when we hear it sung whether it is in a church or Christmas caroling. It represents that Christ did not mearly appear or was created but that he went through the human way and was born. Take a look the next ime you have the Christmas Carol in front of you.

Busy Busy Busy

Wow the past few days have been busy. Catching up with friends over the past few days has been really good. It's been great to sit down with each of them and have a good chat and have either coffee hot chocolate juice or iced chocolate. Last night we went out with a couple of friends Scotty and Lauren and had a great time down at barwon heads.
We are now all packed I think we just have a few more thing to pack when we get home. we are at my Grandma's for Christmas. We arrived this morning. I am not well at the moment and it feels like the flu so I am praying that it is only a 24hr thing.
We are having Christmas with nearly all our family just one Aunty will be missing. I am looking forward to it. We go back Sunday night. Get up early on mOnday and go to the airport.

Our Beautiful Boy is 9 Months Old. Malachi's Dedication and Our Commissioning

Yesterday our Son Malachi was 9 months old. He is starting to crawl. He has the motion and the stance but flops to his tummy. He is practicing all the time though. We had a dedication service at church for Malachi where we promised before the church to raise him in the eyes of Christ and the church also promised to help along the way. I had to wake him up for the occasion as he fell asleep.
We had our commissioning service as well. It went really well. It was nice that so many prayed for us and we really feel that our church is behind us and encouraging us. It was my last Sunday at South Valley after 25 years. It is an end to one thing and the beginning of a new adventure that God has before us. It really hasn't sunk in that I am leaving but U am excited that we are going to Carins next week for a relaxing break.
We had lunch with some friends of ours and had a great time together. In the evening Johnathan and I headed upto Melbourne to visit with my best friendand her husband. We had a whale of a time looking at a video we made more than 7 years ago. It was a riot. It was a long time coming to watch it.