Dear Friends,

During this beautiful Christmas season, the Holy Spirit prompted an amazing thought, "Christmas is just another day and Jesus wants His birthday celebrated every day. He wants us to love and worship Him each day and love each other." I shared this with Dana live during her Christmas Special one hour broadcast on KPRZ Dana Sturgeon Live talk show 10 days ago. This wonderful thought lead me to have a lovely Christmas with my family and friends, enjoying each person God put in my path. Not worrying about wrapping all the gifts but rather wrapping each person with His love and care. Not putting presents first, but His Presence first in everything.

My Christmas cookie recipe may rock and everyone loves it, but baked with His love they taste even better! As I learned in Al Anon, I came to Al Anon perfect and only got worse. Each cookie used to have to be decorated and cookie cutter perfect, but as I let go and let my children learn to bake themselves those cookies were anything but perfect. They were lumpy, uncooked, overbaked and the frosting not like mine. Over the years practice made a difference.

They are now beautifully baked, wonderfully designed, cookie cutter darling and the frosting is the best yet. They are actually prettier and more creative than anything I could ever think of. But it took years of my letting go OVER AND OVER AGAIN and YEARS of practice. YEARS of letting go and learning to love. I learned that my human perfection divides, but God's divine perfection unifies. The only perfect thing in life is Jesus' Love and He makes everything worthwhile and even CHRISTmas cookies taste better! May you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! xoxo