Christmas MIAs

A couple of days ago, our family (sans Jenn who's left us for Canada) drove a few hours to our divisional officer's Christmas party. Yeah- we had it on November 4th, but that's because corps officer's often have lots to do straight through the end of the year and taking a day or two off during our Christmas season is nigh impossible! {sigh}

Anyway, while there, my thoughts drifted off to those who did not show up. There were quite a few. Now I assume there are as many reasons for not coming as there were people who did not come, but I missed them and was sad they were not there to taste a bit of our divisional officer family.

In Northern New England we are quite spread out and it takes some corps many hours to travel just half-way across our division for any particular event! So one of the ways we have eased that difficulty is to schedule fewer divisional events than most other divisions. That's good for a lot of reasons, but one it's not good for is our lack of getting together with each other.

We really do need each other and I hope those who did not show up still take opportunity to fellowship outside of their own little worlds. Often we can't see the greater forest for the trees in our immediate face. Maybe we'll have to get out there to see some of them one of these days.

Here's to our Christmas MIAs: May God bless them too much!

Do you have any Christmas MIAs that could use your attention? Maybe they're just regular weekly church MIAs? Hmmm.