Happy Happy Happy Happy Friday!!!
Can you tell I’m excited and energized this morning?!?! It isn’t ONLY because I’ve been up since 4AM, and have already gotten the day’s work-out in and have had 3 cups of coffee and half of one Monster Energy Ultra Zero drink (but that has a lot to do with it!).
Tonight Craig and I exchange our Christmas cards (letters) and our not-in-a-stocking stuffers, and have “our little Christmas dinner” on the Christmas Tree Spode. It’s our 1st (2nd if you count our ‘big gift’ exchange last Sunday) Christmas of 4, and beginning things reverently and quietly is my favorite way to ‘begin the season’, so to speak. Tonight, Craig will read from our “Family Bible” the Nativity Story from Luke. And we will give the furs their Christmas bones and catnip, before sending them off to the pet nanny in the morning. These are parts of the Christmas tradition we are beginning within our little family.
Traditions, practices, good habits: these are important in our lives – much as our switch to Monday thru Friday blogging has become our practice – something we do every weekday, and some of you have asked “Why?”.
Well, let’s talk for a moment about why we are blogging daily, and networking with Christian Blogging Networks/Communities. Why is this a ‘new tradition’ for the Newlywed Lefebvres?
Because God is reaching people through us.
Amazingly, our little blog has been viewed in these 43 countries:
- U.S.A.
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- India
- Costa Rica
- Italy
- Phillipines (Just yesterday actually)
- Thailand
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Australia
- Romania
- U.A.E.
- Saudi Arabia
- France
- New Zealand
- Malaysia
- Taiwan
- Russian Federation
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Sri Lanka
- Portugal
- Hungary
- Mexico
- Ireland
- Switzerland
- Indonesia
- Slovakia
- Bulgaria
- Norway
- Brazil
- Finland
- Spain
- Israel
- Qatar
- Netherlands
- Bolivia
- Austria
- Albania
- Botswana
- Republic of Korea
And our words & pictures have been shared on Twitter, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, PressThis, Pinterest & via e-mail…
Feeling called to write about the journey we are on with Christ in our marriage, it is utterly amazing to see we have touched people all over the world, and all over the United States. God is powerful, unfathomably so.
When He tugs on your heart to do something for His Kingdom, there is a reason, and it is bigger than you…Craig and I may not be able to get away from work and the furs to go to Botswana, and tell the people there how awesome our God is…But God can use simple words in a blog to reach someone all the way across the world. It is just CRAZY what God can and DOES do when you follow Him.
Remember that when you feel your heartstrings pulled to do something for Christ, that is not YOU talking in there. It’s the Holy Spirit. Follow Him.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
This Christmas, let the Holy Spirit be your food for thought.
Love & Blessings,
The (Not-So) Newlywed Lefebvres 
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