Merry Christmas.

I'm still in awe 2 hours later.
As if my parents bought me a £200 leather jacket that I'd jokingly mentioned that I liked.
I thought my mom and I were going to go shopping in the sale to get one. But no, my wonderful parents bought it for me for Christmas. It was the biggest and best surprise I've ever had. And I can't explain how much I love my parents.

Apart from a leather jacket, they've bought me a lovely, amazing, little compact camera to go with my SLR for when I can't take my big one along on my travels. I'm amazed. And a huge, huge photo frame that had different sized frames within in it that can fit about 40 photos in it. It's wonderful. I can't believe it.

And they were just my main presents of my parents. You can imagine how thankful I am of my family and friends for all the gifts I've received. I'm easily pleased anyway so this is just crazy.


But anyway. On to the important stuff.
Happy Birthday Jesus! I know people say it's not his birthday today, but I'm going to always pretend it is because that's what we were originally told, and although I'm not the most religious of people, we owe this amazing holiday to somebody and I'm going to thank him.

This morning at breakfast, I was to say Grace. I said it traditionally, as we always say Grace at meals on Christmas day - even if it is is the only day in the year that we do say it. But it made me think that it's in the present tense. What about being thankful for what we have already received? I didn't say Grace before I opened my Christmas presents. I know I should be thanking the people who bought them for me. But if God is the creator then surely it is him that influenced everything and that's the reason we recieve what we do. I don't know, seems pretty deep to me. This is all believing that God exists. That's a big question in itself. But I'm not going to go into that now.
Because we should all be thankful, God or no God, spirit or no spirit, whatever might or might not be out there, for what we have, what we receive.


Another thing that happened today, I'm not sure whether I should have or not, was text the boy who hasn't got back to me since we fell out the other day. I haven't had a reply today. But Christmas is about showing and sharing love, affection and happiness, isn't it? Whether I get a reply or not, I know I've tried, I know I've been the bigger person, and I know that I've followed what I know, what I've been taught, I've followed Christmas spirit.
I can't help hoping he'll reply, even though I know he won't.
But I shouldn't dwell on that, not today, because it's Christmas Day. On Christmas Day we don't dwell on the bad things, we think of the good, happy things. The wonderful people we know. And we are thankful for what we have already.


"For what we receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful."

Merry Christmas. I hope get everything you wish for. Have a wonderful day.

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