12.17.13 Lord, for many, Christmas may not always be merry and happy, especially with all the busyness and loneliness and scroogeness in the world. Thank you, Lord, for good tidings of great joy brought to us as a little baby bundled with love in a manger, that baby being You. How awesome that when things are not really merry as they should be, we have comfort and hope in the great gift of JOY deep down in our innards.