As soon as my "real" computer is fixed, I will attach pictures of the "amazing" "astounding" "enormous" snow that has fallen upon us in the past week. We have well over 40 inches of white stuff on the ground, it goes up past my knees. It snowed 2 1/2 feet last Thursday, 12 inches on Saturday, 9 inches by Monday morning and probably near another foot by 4 pm today, Christmas. We are not dreaming of a white Christmas anymore!
The most amazing experience of our Christmas this year was performing at the Union Gospel Mission. Troy called to see if we could serve dinners to the homeless and then mentioned that we had a little family band. They immediately put him in contact with the Services coordinator, who asked if we could just do their worship hour. Troy said yes, and we began to practice. We were a little aprhensive about playing there, unsure what we would find. But the day finally came (Dec. 9th)and we took our little rag tag bluegrass, country, jingle bell band to the chapel of the homeless shelter. After we were all set up and ready to go, they opened the doors and the chairs filled with well over 50 men and about 20 women. We thought somehow we were there to serve them. The chaplain said it would be good for them to see a family working and performing together. Little did we know how much they would serve us. Amazing is the word that best describes it for me. Just Amazing. To watch their faces as the clapped, laughed and joined us in singing was absolutely priceless. But the coolest thing was afterward, as I watched my children, my family being served by homeless, raggedly dressed men and women. One by one, so many came up and thanked my family, complemented my kids individually. "You sing so beautifully," "You are really good on the drums, I play the drums, so I know you are really good." "Thank you for coming tonight." I came away realizing that these men and women served me more than I could have ever served them.
Merry Christmas!
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