We did not create a Christmas card this year as it just
didn’t seem right; however we’d like to send you a message from us. As you
know, this has been a very difficult year for our family, and we look forward
to a better year ahead. We enter this holiday season with sadness over the loss
of our precious baby girl, Olivia, and mourn the inability to share Christmas
and family traditions with her. However we recognize that she is with Our
Savior, the very reason we have and celebrate Christmas. Makes one wonder what
a celebration it must be to be in His very presence on His birthday! What a
lucky little angel she is!
Isaac and I have learned so much about the true meaning of
“Hope” this year. Hope is in the Promise
God has given us in the birth of his Son, Jesus. Hope is the expectation that
what lies ahead will be better. That day when we, as children of God are united
with Jesus is truly something to desire.
“For to us a child is
born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and
his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6
Through this year, Jesus has been our Wonderful Counselor, he has provided us the comfort we have needed
most and guided us through a parents’ worst nightmare. He has been our Mighty God in strengthening our marriage
and bond as a family and with Him. He is our Everlasting Father, who will always pick us back up and bring us
out of the deepest despair. He has been and continues to be our Prince of Peace as there is no greater
source of peace in the difficult times that seem too much to bear.
It is our family’s HOPE that you too will feel the presence
of God in your lives’ this holiday season and the coming year. Merry Christmas!
Love,
Isaac, Ashley, Cole and Angel Olivia
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