An unexpected gift

Christmas with a babe in your arms is a whole lot different than any other Christmas I have experienced.  Thoughts have consistently run through my head of how Mary must have felt to hold that precious babe in her arms and know the future of a changing world.  I know Jessa is not going to change the world to the extent that Christ did but I do know for sure that she has taught me a lot about the Saviour.  I have felt such an indescribable sense of peace this Christmas and love.  Oh a sweet love that I have felt glimpses of but never in this extent.  Jesus Christ was essential to the plan of the gospel to save our world from sin and error pining.  And simply each day has brought an increase of the spirit in our home and a glimpse of heaven really.  Oh I have felt a love that I know that God is real.  On Sunday the stake president came to our ward to give a talk so in tune with what I had been praying about.  A talk he said he had not prepared for any other ward before ours and he had felt a prompting to share what he was feeling.  It was almost apostolic as he talked about forgiveness, about love, about marriages and as he spoke I knew that Heavenly Father was telling me that those words were for me especially.  The greatest gift I have been given this Christmas season is a greater understanding and testimony of God's love for us imperfect as we are.