Whew...

Celebrate... celebrate... dance to the music...

It was wonderful. But it was exhausting!

I had an absolute blast with the Celebrating Christmas blog. Can't even begin to tell you what a blessing it was to see women I love and respect give sacrificially to build up other women during this holiday season. We have had emails and comments from all over the world. I stand in awe of our Lord!

One of my favorite emails came from a lady who lives in Canada. I have no idea how she found the blog, but she emailed and shared that she lives alone and this year she's doing a major home renovation so she didn't decorate her house at all. She'd never heard of a Jesse tree until she read about it on the blog, so she decided to make one. Even though her Christmas didn't look like it had in the past, she felt focused on Jesus. What a blessing!

We are taking a break and the launching a year-round version of the blog. It's called "Celebrate!" Karen D had the idea that it might just bless even more people if we kept on encouraging each other to put Jesus as the focus in the rest of the holidays and everydays. So far she and I are the authors listed, but we are looking for a few more women who'd be willing to post now and then. If you're interested, email me. The only "requirement" to be on the writing team is that you really need to love Jesus.

Thank you ALL who contributed in one way or another ... photographs, posts, comments, emails, ideas, etc... We did have a few things left over that we hope to use next year. My prayer is that the Lord will bless you in a way you didn't imagine and in a way that you know could be attributed only to Him.