It's Christmas and I'm feeling unusually reflective. We sent an email round a couple of weeks ago telling folk our car had been stolen, but one of the things we'd been thinking about is all the stuff we were thankful for in the midst of it all. Well, we continue to choose thankfulness in the middle of the "down" moments in life, but actually, as we approach Christmas there's so much to be thankful for IN the circumstances (and not just in spite of them)!Our car showed up a few days ago. It wasn't burned out, crashed in a ditch or had "i love my mum" spray-painted down the side. It looked pretty good actually. From what we can tell, he must have even parked it nicely as it took our fine constabulary a couple of weeks to realise it was a stolen vehicle. Even more amazingly, apart from a few empty CD cases (our thief seemed to be a bit "intelligence challenged", if you know what I mean) there wasn't really a lot taken from inside either. It looks like he just fancied saving the bus-fare home. Our keys have a "reward tag" on them, provided by our insurance company, promising a £10 reward for anyone handing them it at the Halifax. Our entrepreneurial car thief decided to maximise on the opportunity and try to claim his £10 reward for 'finding' our keys. he wasn't too happy when he found out you had to leave your name and address and asked for the keys back. The woman at the Halifax pointed out that they'd already established they weren't actually his keys and he decided it was time for a hasty exit.
So; we have our car, we have most of our stuff and we even have the key back (which saved us quite a fsmall ortune!). As a family, we've spent a good chunk of time over the past few days being thankful to God for all the ways he provides for us, but on this Christmas eve, we are drawn further into thankfulness as we consider a creator God who chose to leave the splendours of eternity and arrive into this world via a stable.
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