Less is More

In our Christmas activities with the kids, the Lord is teaching us an important lesson… less is more.  We had the Christmas party and thought we would have tons of kids, but we had 6.  And it was the perfect number.  And then on Wednesday for the concert we thought we would have a big group and then we had 7 (including a friend’s son).  And again, it was a so nice.

Caitlin and her sister Anna, Kate, me, David, Solomon, and Lester were all adults in attendance.  Which means each kid got some individual attention.  We could sit with them, hang out with them.  David wrote an off the cuff song for Jose.  We had way too much pizza.  But we had time to just hang out with them instead of having to bark orders to a whole group of rowdy kids.

I think they loved it.  The concert was excellent.  It really feels like Christmas to me now.  The kids clapped and sang Feliz Navidad and almost fell asleep because they usually go to bed at 7 :)  They gave the Christmas story from Joseph’s perspective and plainly shared the Gospel.  Yesterday I got to use that as a starting point to talk to two of the boys and I think they were really listening.

Sadly one of our boys that is dearest to our hearts has found his teenage attitude the past couple of weeks.  I think all you moms out there know what I’m talking about.  Slow to follow directions or choosing to do the opposite of what you just said, even when there is no visible advantage to being blatantly disobedient.  So… that was our hard moment of the night, having to tell him he can’t come spend Christmas with us because of His behavior.  But we pray that He sees Jesus in us, even in the tough love, and that our friendship with him will be better off for it in the long run.

Less kids but more conversation about Jesus.  I’ll take it.