Hey, everyone. I wanted to give you a short free-for-all Friday today. Just a special one because it is the day after Christmas.

And I saw this historical tidbit and just wanted to share it with you. I figured maybe it would be helpful for you during this Christmas season.

Especially just during this time, it can be really difficult to keep our focus on Christ. And by the way, Christmas is not just a day. It is this season. We've got to keep living the Christmas spirit, y'all, which I got to say, y'all, because we're in Texas. But a lot of times we can lose side of that with family, with gifts, with, you know, trying to deal with the holidays and the stress that's involved, which is unfortunate because Christmas should just be focused on our Lord.

I want to show you just an interesting historical event that happened that can help kind of keep a lot of that in

perspective.

So during World War I, there was an incident called the Christmas Truce, where in the first year of the war,

fighting between the English and the Germans actually would

spontaneously cease on Christmas Eve, and then on Christmas Day, the forces would exchange

pleasantries with one another, and they just did not want to fight on this day, this most holy

days of the year, where God has you know, God has blessed us,

or even the people that probably weren't even that religious, they felt there was something

special on that particular day, it's on Christmas. Why are we even fighting? So here is a primary

source describing one of these truces that comes from a member of the British forces. His name is Jim,

writing to his wife, his name is, he was Private 8165 James Jim Davy, writing to his wife, Christine,

calling her sis, C-I-S, on December 28th, 1914. Here is what he wrote to her to get a feel for this.

My darling, sis, we are down for our rest again, and I have just received your welcome parcel and three letters and papers. By the way,

later, I'm just going to read you part of the letter. Later in the letter, he's really jazzed

that she sent him pudding. You will scarcely believe it, but nevertheless, it is true. We had an

extraordinary Christmas on Christmas Eve.

The Germans who hold Christmas in great style started giving us songs and shouting little bits in

English, and of course we retaliated. And on Christmas Day, the most funny thing happened.

We noticed a white flag going up, and then one German getting up on the trench and advanced

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