Kids and Christmas

I know I already said that music was my favorite part of Christmas but I am officially retracting my statement. Not that I feel any different about the music, its just that I have realized that if you truly want to experience all the magic of the Christmas season children are an essential ingredient. Watching Children on Christmas morning is my favorite thing about Christmas, especially if they are my children. I have included some photos as proof. These photos are not necessarily impressive for any particular reason. but if one simply focuses on the expressions in each picture there is a good possibility you will find a smile coming over you. There may be many reasons you smile but one of those reasons could be the sense of joy associated with giving something that you know will be meaningful to someone you love, and then watching them. These pictures are a small sampling of that joy that was experienced in the Murdock home this year.

Perhaps there is a natural tendency to feel a connection with children around Christmas regardless of whether they are your own or not. Again there could be many reasons for this but I cannot help but recognize that the entire season was established around a child, the most precious child ever brought into this dreary world. The one most critical to the joy we all seek and the only one willing and able to give the gift we all desperately seek. A gift given to his children in the same spirit we all give. The Spirit of love, the Spirit of joy, The Spirit of Christ.


Merry Christmas and may the coming year be filled with giving and joy for all of you!