Family Christmas Sunday!!

Today is family Christmas Sunday at our church. We were to ask our family to come to church with us to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Its a happy day for the reason we celebrate Christmas. But a sad day too.... some of our family will not be with us today. Some family has just lost all interest in church-they have a zillion excuses-I wonder if the phone rang yesterday and on the other end was an unfamiliar voice asking them to go to church today and they said NO if they would bother to ask who it was. Could it be the Lord?? He shouldn't HAVE to ask us to go. It should be something we look forward to every week. Someday we will hang our head in shame when we look on HIS face and try to tell HIM why we didn't get up and go. Some of our family have already gone on they celebrate everday with HIM face to face. And although we hurt lots they wouldn't come back for this special day for anything. We sure do miss you. I hope we teach Alanna to always enjoy going to church. And to love the LORD with all her heart.