A Joyful Beginning

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 

This time of year, it can be pretty easy to be in a bad mood. Here where I live, for instance, the long, stubbornly sticking snow just finally melted....right in time for Christmas.

Good timing, snow. 

We had a month of powdery white, and now it has melted just in time to deny us a white Christmas. Plus, the long months ahead promise dreary cold, slush, and ice, far into what we would normally hope to be spring. The year before last, we had snow days in April!

We can't control the weather. Something we can do, however, is keep a positive outlook on the winter ahead. Christmas is kind of a good way to start that.

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of our Savior, the beginning of our hope. We can also see it as a beginning of a long winter, and remember to be positive about it.

I encourage everyone to keep the Christmas spirit into 2015. :) Merry Christmas, everyone, and a blessed new year!

We have reason to be joyful! <3