Welcome to the aggressiveress of Life.

It is nearly Christmas.

Most of us love Christmas, or we want to love Christmas,

and part of why Christmas may have lost this luster is we've lost the meaning of Christmas.

We may be able to answer the questions right about what Christmas means,

but how we're putting it into our lives and into our hearts and our spirits on a day

by day, moment by moment basis.

May not be very good.

So what we're doing different for the aggressive life over this week is we're going to give

you four teachings, little devotionals, if you will,

that will help you just recapture the essence of what you want for this Christmas.

Some of this stuff came out in a email that I did a couple years ago,

because I think about these things pretty frequently.

By the way, I have an email list you can subscribe to and I give you some original content every couple weeks once a month. It varies,

but you can sign up for that. And if you do, you might have gotten a devotional that I did

on Thanksgiving every day during Thanksgiving week. And I did something similar with Christmas

a couple years ago. And this stuff was just things that I think about and are baked into my heart.

So I want to bring them out for you.

So here we go.

Day number one, we're calling Christmas with haste.

And the verse I want to read is Luke chapter 2 verse 16. It's the verse that comes after the angels

come to the shepherds and tell shepherds that the Messiah is being born and it's in

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