The Shrum Family Adventures: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

(This is the picture that we used for our Christmas Card this year. The card came out to small when I posted it, so this will have to do.)

I wanted to wish all my blogger friends and their families out there a Very Merry Christmas! I will not be spending a lot of time on the computer the next few days with baking, wrapping presents, visiting family, going to Christmas Eve Service, and going to the movies with my hubby. You know all the fun stuff!!! Hope you all have a great time with your family and friends this year. May peace and love be with you this holiday season and through out 2011. Can you believe another year is already upon us? Wow!

Don't forget the real reason of the season........ and that is Jesus!!!! And Please do not take Christ out of Christmas the whole entire reason for Christmas! The Christ child that was born more then 2000 years ago.

Blessings,
The Shrum Family

4 comments:

Melanie said...: Merry Christmas Mary Anne! Hope that you guys have a blessed & joyous day! Your Christmas card is beautiful!; December 23, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Jenny said...: What a beautiful photo of your sweet kids! Makes me long for the beach! Merry Christmas to you and your precious family!; December 24, 2010 at 2:37 AM
Mary Ann said...: Thanks Jenny and Melanie! Merry Christmas to your beautiful families too!; December 24, 2010 at 5:53 AM
Mom (Nana) said...: Merry Christmas to all of you!
Hope you have a wonderful day and
a fantastic, happy and prosperous
year.
Hope Karlton gets lots of Paying
jobs and Mary Ann sells lots of
tutuz.
Hope you all stay healthy and the
kids are unbelievably good. But, to us they already are.
Love you all forever and always!
Mom, Dad, and Boo.; December 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM

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Verses that really spoke to me and helped me get through our adoptions.

(John 14:18) " I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

(Isaiah 43:5-6) "Do not be afraid, for I am with you,
I will bring your children from the west. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth."

(Proverbs 25:25) "As cold water is to a thirsty soul : so is good
news from a far country."

(Matthew 6:25-34) The do not worry chapter.
This is the chapter that told me we would adopt again and the
baby girl woud be named Lily (Lilee). "The lilies of the field".
This is a great reminder of why we should not worry, God will take care of his people!

(Psalms 82: 3-4) "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Resue the weak and neady; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

(Psalms 68: 5) "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."

(Deuteronomy 10:18) " He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving them food and clothing."

(Philippians 4:13) "I can do all things through him who gives me strength."

(Philippians 4:6-7) " Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your request to God. And the peace of God,which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

(Romans 8:28) " And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

(James 1:27) "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their destress, and to keep oneself from being polluted from by the world."