Merry Christmas from the Dragos

So, I’m sure a lot of you have already figured out that we did not send out a Christmas card this year…that’s 2 years in a row with no card from the Dragos!!  I really, really love receiving Christmas cards…REALLY I DO!!!!  I am not a big fan of getting the mail…I feel like bad news and bills come in the mail, but in December, I pretty much stalk the USPS so I can run to the mailbox to see what Christmas cards came that day…it seriously makes my day!!:)  You would think someone who appreciates receiving Christmas cards so much would send one, wouldn’t you??  Since I have let so many of you down, I thought I would send an electronic Christmas card as a meager attempt to thank all of you who have sent us such lovely cards…I realize this is really LAME, but please know that we are sending our best to you and your family this Christmas!!!

So, this afternoon as I prepared to head outside to snap a few shots of the girls for our electronic Christmas card, Matt mentioned to Gretta, who was already on the verge of a breakdown, that Mommie wanted to take a few shots of them for a Christmas card.  All she heard was “SHOTS” and she went into a full scale meltdown screaming that she didn’t want mommie to give her a shot.  Thus began our Christmas card photo shoot.

Now for the card.  If you’re still reading this, close your eyes, and imagine you just received a red envelope with our return address on it.  Now, open the envelope and take out your Christmas card from the Dragos…

And, here is what our card ALMOST looked like last year…

And, last but not least, if you had received a card from us this year, this quote would have been typed out on a small piece of paper and stuffed in the envelope.  After all, this is the reason we get excited about Christmas, and every other day of the year for that matter.  This is where our joy is centered…this is where we dwell…this is who we worship…this is MOST DEFINITELY the reason for this season and every other…

“…who was He who thus obeyed God…It was none other than the Son of God made man. He who was in heaven, above all, Lord of all, lived in the world, having no earthly glory or reputation, obliged to obey the whole law of God perfectly. He to whom prayer was made, prayed himself night and day. He, whom all the angels of heaven and all creatures worshipped, fulfilled all the duties which the worship of God required. He who was Lord and master of the house became the lowliest servant in the house, performing all menial duties. He that made all men in whose hand they are all as clay is in the hand of the potter, observed among them the strictest rules of justice…and out of love giving good things to the undeserving.  This is what makes the obedience of Christ so mysterious and glorious.”

John Owen

and one more…

“It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the profoundest and most unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. ‘The Word became flesh’ (Jn. 1:14); God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. And there was no illusion or deception in this: the babyhood of the Son of God was a reality. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation….The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity–hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory–because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor and was born in a stable so that thirty years later he might hang on a cross. It is the most wonderful message that the world has ever heard, or will hear”

J.I. Packer

 

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