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Happy Snow Weekend!

Seven days till Christmas! And guess what’s happening here in Stuarts Draft this weekend! The weather service is calling for 5-8 inches tonight and another 6-10 inches tomorrow! It’s going to be a winter wonderland everyone! Maybe we can build IGLOOS and whip out the DOG SLEDS! Definitely making snow ice cream and snow creatures… and definitely going sledding… and definitely having snow ball fights!

Oh, and HOT CHOCOLATE with a full INCH of marshmallows… YES!

Sometimes LESS Really is So Much MORE: All You Need is Love!

My only sadness in all of this winter cheer is the fact that Emily has to work her second job today AND tomorrow… and nobody in ALL THE earth lives for snow days like Emily Elizabeth Wall Balsamo! Thanks to all the backstabbers who made this possible… may God also bless your wives with second and third jobs and give you empty Christmas trees this Christmas morning! lol haha! jkk

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

Really, it’s been kind of fun suffering through this TEMPORARY moment of excruciating sacrifice. Especially just recently, when my daughter said to me, “You know Dad, I kind of appreciate what we’ve been going through… so much more than I thought I would! Really, this has been MY FAVORITE Christmas EVER… I’m having the time of my LIFE! It makes me appreciate the LITTLEST parts of Christmas that I don’t usually notice!”

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

So true Heaven Ashlee Balsamo! This Christmas, I also appreciate all the littlest parts of Christmas that I don’t usually notice! Like the kind handwritten words on a heartfelt Christmas Card or the value of living in REAL PEACE with HAPPY and LOVING and LOYAL friends!

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

Even though I feel the poorest I’ve ever felt in all my life… this has ALREADY been the best Christmas EVER! Our Christmas parties and church services have been too perfect for ANYONE to believe!

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

Every year, we host Christmas parties @ our house for all the leaders of our ministry. This year, we’re having 3 parties with something like 35 leaders each. And after the first party last Tuesday night, I actually balled my eyes out over the LOVE we all shared!

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

I think people WOULD PAY FOR THIS KIND OF LOVE! Dear God, you are overwhelming us with your love right now! This Christmas, we’re RICH with LOVE! I mean the people in my life today appreciate my LITTLEST gestures of kindness. I don’t feel the slightest need to perform great tricks in order to keep them INTERESTED. I’m not SCARED to stumble in front of these friends! They’re all so CHEERFUL and CREATIVE and PEACEFUL and MERCIFUL and HUMBLE and so PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH JESUS!

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

I don’t know how much longer this will last. I hope and pray it lasts forever! All I know is that I will never forget the Christmas of 2009! I will never forget this PURE SAMPLE of HEAVEN we all tasted together! I will never forget what it felt like to live in a time when LOVES WIND BLEW like the very breath of God!

Start up a Fire of Love

Even though its 63 degrees in this Balsamo house most of time (emily conserving electricity)… there’s a fire of LOVE burning in our hearts for each other. I’ve never felt so close to my family… never! I feel my kids REACHING TO ME WITH THEIR LOVE and they FEEL MY LOVE FOR THEM! Emily’s love for me has never felt more GENUINE… and I have never been more IN LOVE with her! I cant wait to see my Dad and my brother Jason and my sister Helen and my Grandmother and all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces and cousins!

I’m so JOLLY RIGHT NOW! Lala lala laaaaaaaa!!!! For the very first time in many years, every single person in my entire circle LOVES me like crazy! And that is worth a MILLION DOLLARS!

Proverbs 15:16-17
Better a little with the fear of the LORD
than great wealth with turmoil.
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened calf with hatred.

Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry crust eaten in peace
than a house filled with feasting-and conflict.

Sometimes LESS really is so much MORE!

So this morning, I pray for all my blog friends… that you will be rich with love for every SECOND of these next seven days! I am praying LIKE CRAZY for you all right now! Feel the difference and share the difference all day long! Happy Friday, happy snow day, and happy seven days to Christmas! I sincerely love you all!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

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