Merry Christmas!!!

it's deep into the night and i'm about to go to bed here in the basement of my brother's house outside of portland, oregon. my whole family is here and in a few hours i'll be woken up by three excited nephews and one excited niece and we'll all run upstairs and exchange gifts and cards and celebrate a wonderful day.

so before i head off to sleep, i want to send out merry Christmas greetings to all of you out there who might be reading this message. may yours be a day full of warmth and merriment. may you bring joy to the lives of others, just as they would bring joy to yours. and may the spirit of the holiday fill your heart, upwards and outwards, with thankfulness for the great blessing that we celebrate today.