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Joy to the World

Overcoming the Stress and Enjoying the Season

by Amanda & Kristi Crabb

Aaron and Adam had been traveling with the Crabb Family since they were kids, so life on the road was all they had ever known. The day we married into the family, it became part of our lives, too. Life on the road comes with its own set of challenges, add four young children to the mix and…well, let’s just say our lives are never boring.

Holidays can be a hectic time for anyone, but we try our best to make it fun and pass the true meaning on to our children. Our lives are crazy 95% of the time, but we take two weeks at Christmas just to be with family and celebrate the birth of our Savior.

I (Amanda) remember, a couple of years ago on Christmas day, we had been to several different houses, receiving and giving gifts. On the way to another family’s house, I began to cry. I told Aaron, “We have given gifts to everyone but Him.” That night when we got to our family’s house, I was asked to pray before we opened our gifts. The person that asked me to pray didn’t know what I had said in the car; and at that moment, I felt the Holy Spirit speak, “Now is the time to give your gift.”

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