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Merry Christmas From Me To You!

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So. Much. Good. Food.

 

Besides spending time with my family and having slow mornings with my momma where we sip coffee, watch the Today show and make elaborate breakfasts….I also love home because the food just tastes better.

My momma cooks and even if I make the same things at my apartment, it just tastes better at home. We’ve been baking cookies and bars and peanut butter balls and more cookies and peppermint bark and more cookies. All that to say, I’m well fed here.

 

 My aunt, momma and I went to see Straight No Chaser’s holiday concert downtown on Sunday and then we ate dinner at Sobro Cafe in Broadripple and drank one of the best Chardonnay’s of my life. Yes, at a vegetarian cafe in Broadripple. It was some local organic wine I forget the name of now, who knew Indiana did wine? I took a day trip to Louisville on Saturday to see Whit, which was so exciting! We met when I moved to Charlottesville and she’s become a friend so close to my heart. She recently moved to Nashville and now that I’m in NYC we rarely see each other so we met halfway in Louisville to spend the day together. Other than that and hanging with some high school friends, things have been pretty low key here and that feels absolutely amazing.

 

 

 

All the food and gifts and parties and all that jazz are wonderful and it’s easy to get sucked into this world with the hustle and bustle of the season and forget what we’re actually celebrating. I’ve been reading through the She Reads Truth Advent plan with Whitney this year and more than any year before, my heart is full with excitement and anticipation for Christmas. And not because of the gifts or because of the food (I can get very excited about all the good food) but because of the One who was born and walked this Earth so we could walk this same Earth covered in love and freedom and grace and mercy. That excites me!

The one thing that’s pulled at my heart through this Advent season is how we’re called to rest. And I’m the first one to admit I’m totally bad at this. But it’s something I’m trying to work on everyday. And that’s not just physical rest, but rest from the expectations of this world. Rest from the expectations of yourself. Rest from the lies we tell ourselves or the lies we believe from others. So this Christmas I hope you rest and I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing holiday filled with so much joy and love and lots of grace. Grace to be okay just where you are. Grace to know that you’re doing enough. Grace to sleep in or nap or both. Grace to exercise if you want to because that’s what feels good, but grace to lay on the couch because that’s what feels good instead. Grace to enjoy all the good food for what it is…just food and nothing more than that. And to soak up all that grace knowing that we are absolutely imperfect and that’s okay because Christ is perfect and spotless and goes before us.

Merry, merry Christmas!
xo


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