Two Years

Today is the two year mark of my Great Grandma Rose being un Heaven. Yes it still hurts, but I am blessed. I can still hear her voice sometimes. I have emails that I look back on and read. Sometimes I sing Jesus Loves me and pray that she can hear me. It's hard, but I know that she is in Heaven with God and that she is happy. She is in no more pain. I have seven scarves and sweat shirts from her an I use them all the time. Mostly the white one she is wearing in the first picture. And when I wear them I can feel her and her warmth. I think about the stories she told me. I think about the last week with her. I still cry everytime I see her in a picture, but I know she is proud of my family. She would pray for EVERY SINGLE GRANDCHILD, DAUGHTER, SON, WIFE, HUSBAND everynight before she went to bed. Every time I sit in the sun I remember how she LOVED doing that. She was the biggest blessing and you knew she was a child who knew who here Father was. Her passion is what drove every one of us to be better. I am so thankful that my last words were not of hate but of love. "I love you"...and her last words.."I love you to see you at Christmas" but she didn't make it. God let her go when she was at peace and not a few days before when she was suffering. I LOVE and miss her a lot. But I am proud to carry her name after her!!!

Dear Grandma Rose,
    I love and miss you a lot. We all do, But I hope that if your looking down that you are proud and joyful. your were such an inspiration to all of us. And I will do my best to carry that on.
Love
A Daughter of Jesus
Hannah
Rose

❄️Christmas❄️

So Christmas is only a week away....This year has been hard for me because of a lot of things. But the most impotent this is the Birth of Jesus.
   
Matthew 1:18-25; Matthew 2:1-12; Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:1-20.

The Conception of Jesus Foretold

Mary, a virgin, was living in Galilee of Nazareth and was engaged to be married to Joseph, a Jewish carpenter. An angel visited her and explained to her that she would conceive a son by the power of the Holy Spirit. She would carry and give birth to this child and she would name him Jesus.
At first Mary was afraid and troubled by the angel's words. Being a virgin, Mary questioned the angel, "How will this be?" The angel explained that the child would be God's own Son and, therefore, "nothing is impossible with God." Humbled and in awe, Mary believed the angel of the Lord and rejoiced in God her Savior.
Surely Mary reflected with wonder on the words found in Isaiah 7:14 foretelling this event, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel."

The Birth of Jesus:

While Mary was still engaged to Joseph, she miraculously became pregnant through the Holy Spirit, as foretold to her by the angel. When Mary told Joseph she was pregnant, he had every right to feel disgraced. He knew the child was not his own, and Mary's apparent unfaithfulness carried a grave social stigma. Joseph not only had the right to divorce Mary, under Jewish law she could be put to death by stoning.
Although Joseph's initial reaction was to break the engagement, the appropriate thing for a righteous man to do, he treated Mary with extreme kindness. He did not want to cause her further shame, so he decided to act quietly. But God sent an angel to Joseph in a dream to verify Mary's story and reassure him that his marriage to her was God's will. The angel explained that the child within Mary was conceived by the Holy Spirit, that his name would be Jesus and that he was the Messiah, God with us.
When Joseph woke from his dream, he willingly obeyed God and took Mary home to be his wife, in spite of the public humiliation he would face. Perhaps this noble quality is one of the reasons God chose him to be the Messiah's earthly father.
Joseph too must have wondered in awe as he remembered the words found in Isaiah 7:14, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel."
At that time, Caesar Augustus decreed that a census be taken, and every person in the entire Roman world had to go to his own town to register. Joseph, being of the line of David, was required to go to Bethlehem to register with Mary. While in Bethlehem, Mary gave birth to Jesus. Probably due to the census, the inn was too crowded, and Mary gave birth in a crude stable. She wrapped the baby in cloths and placed him in a manger.

The Shepherd's Worship the Savior:

Out in the fields, an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds who were tending their flocks of sheep by night. The angel announced that the Savior had been born in the town of David. Suddenly a great host of heavenly beings appeared with the angels and began singing praises to God. As the angelic beings departed, the shepherds decided to travel to Bethlehem and see the Christ-child.
There they found Mary, Joseph and the baby, in the stable. After their visit, they began to spread the word about this amazing child and everything the angel had said about him. They went on their way still praising and glorifying God. But Mary kept quiet, treasuring their words and pondering them in her heart. It must have been beyond her ability to grasp, that sleeping in her arms—the tender child she had just borne—was the Savior of the world.

  So as you can see this is the true meaning of Christmas!!! So if your having a hard year like me always remember this story!! It will help you remember the true meaning.. 😉 hope you have a Merry Christmas!!!!  😘