He is amazing....He is God...He is holy, His might and love are immeasurable. You can't say that about anything! If man had telescopes big enough and powerful enough, we could measure the universe......but Jesus is bigger than the universe....He's bigger than our sin and He porved that in defeating it, our whole life-long, century-old problem. sin. ugly.....bad.....condemning.....inescapable (without Christ).......wretched.......evil........disgusting sin. We are like a bunch of nasty slugs, sloshing around on the ground, unable to get away from our own gross slimeyness(sin) that covers us and keeps us eating dirt and leaving nasty slime everywhere we go. But God's Son took all of our slimey nastiness on Himself....and it was painful and gross and stuff for Him too...because He was clean and holy and had never sinned ever......and anyone who confesses that they are a sinner (can you believe that so many of us don't even believe that we are who we are...those nasty slugs!) and believes that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died for them and their sin and rose from the grave, will be cleansed from their sin and the eternal death that is the penalty of that sin adn can live atlast and forever with The Lord who did that for us. Why did He do it? Why would He ever want to? Because He loves us. That is very strange to us....because seeing how wretched we are and how awesome and holy He is.....it's like....why would someone like that ever love somebody like me? But He did and He does and He wants everyone to turn to Him and accept the FREE gift of His salvation for our sins! He is THE BOMB!!!! No one and nothing can ever compare to Him. No wonder we celebrate His birthday every year!!!

ok so yeah! I am here today in Christ! He has saved me and I am His, forever. No one can pluck me out of His hand!!!!! I'm sitting here @ the computer.....alot fo stuff has happened since....i think it was the 17th??.......and I know that I can't possibly fit it all in here without being a BORE! (I was reading something @ webmonkey.com a while ago about websites and how you should only include things in it that people other than yoursle fwould be interested in! hahaha! I have SO not beeen doing that....i don't think.) I found one of my mom's old notebook journal things in the attic from her college days and it was mostly boring to me....I'msure it wouldn't be to her because she remembers all that junk that she wrote and all the things that happened in her life....but it was boring to me. I was also @ nicole's house a couple years ago and she let me read some of her old diaries (from years b4 THAT even) and they were pretty boring to me too......so I don't know if anyone actually came on here and read this, if it would be boring to them or TOTALLY interesting! haha. I think that I'm the only one who ever reads this anyway..so it doesn't even matter. I think I'm gonna print out most of the stuff for me to read later in life! woohoo! I'll find this huge stack of papers.....ok not so huge.....and be reading them in my late 40's and think of how immature and ignorant I was waaaaay back then! haha! I'm not that ignorant. (<--ignorance) hahaha! Nicole said someone told her that she says haha too much! what in the world?! How can you say Haha too much!? ok..i seeh wo you could....but nah......

So Uncle Greg and aunt Joy are here with their precious little children! Samuel was born like last month or something. (i really need to get back on track with knowing people's birthdays) and Georgie is 2 now. They are so cute!!! Aww! And we only get to see them all for like 3 days! aww! but THEN I'm going to the RETREAT in michigan!!! woohoo! Last year I went to that and it was soooo awesome!!!!!! All of the people there to learn about our Savior who are serious about their relationship with Him. That makes me so happy to see people so attached to the Lord and who realize the importance and priority of that relationship. uhh!!! it's the BOMB! haha

Ok well, I had better get off of here......as usual it's now no longer morning and I haven't finished this....i saved it and just came backt o it! haha. We got a Christmas tree TODAY! my dad went to go get one (because uncle Greg was going to get one b/c we need one. my dad would probably NEVER get a tree)So they went to get a tree and found some @ this car lot, but the tree guy wasn't there so they hung around there for a long time and the guy never came back, so eventually the car lot owner told them to just go ahead and take a tree b/c the guy wasn't coming back. So they made off with a HUGE tree (short of course to fit in our short house, haha!) but looking @ it right now I would say that it's about 5 and a half or 6 feet wide! hahaha. ok so I better go tob ed or something! haha! ok buhbye! have a wonderful fabulous day, and remember the reason for this beautiful season.....JESUS!
Love ya in Christ,
rachel ><>