Christmas Wrap-up
We are now three days past Christmas and three days ahead of New Year's Eve. We're right in the middle of the span of time where the sentimentalists are clinging to the last bit of Christmas while the practicalists are boxing, shelving, and happily storing Christmas away until next year. I was a little startled how quickly the non-stop Christmas music stations flipped the switch back to their usual sets on December 26. Christmas is over and done with and they're moving forward! I am almost there, but wanted to share one poignant lesson I learned from the Christmas story this year. One of the Shelton traditions is that I tell the boys a Bible story every night at bedtime. I rarely tell the stories the same way twice. I believe that if you want your children to believe that the stories in the Bible are true, you need to tell them as if you believe they're true. So I'm creative, sometimes dramatic, and always looking for a devotional thought to emphasize in tha