The Girlfriends Christmas Brunch

On Saturday I went to our church's Girlfriends Christmas brunch. (Here's a pic of me in front of my newly decorated tree. This is how the hair normally looks after I have done it! :) It was good as it was last year - I got to meet some new people. I actually gave a ride to a lady, H, that is friends with K and Ar, who I knew a little bit before, and she was at the party K had last Monday. It was nice to get to know her a little bit better. I sat with her and our interim lead pastor's wife and her sisters and two other ladies. Cathy (Jeff's wife) and her sisters Rose and Laura sing together and they sang two songs - a cappella - that they harmonize so nicely together on that it made me want to cry. They sang "Mary, Did you Know?" and the lyrics to the song hit me again this year. It's always different once you have a child how these things connect with you. Here's the lyrics and then I will tell you what struck me.

Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered, will soon deliver you.

Mary did you know that your baby boy would give sight to a blind man?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would calm a storm with his hand?
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when you kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God.

Oh Mary did you know

The blind will see, the deaf will hear,  the dead will live again.
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the lamb.

Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding is the great I am.

So this line "And when you kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God" always gets me, because I am a baby kisser. I cannot help but kiss the face of any baby that I am holding. At times, I have to catch myself when I do not know the people whose baby I am holding that well. There is something about those precious soft little faces that smell so nice that I cannot resist. But I think about my own little man and how much I love to kiss him that I wonder what Mary thought. Did all the thoughts in this song run through her head at one point or another, or would it have been too overwhelming for her to be coignizant of it constantly, so she forgot more often than not? When she kissed his little face, did she think about the fact that not 9 months before, the person who was her song was in heaven, in the presence of God the Father and she was in fact kissing God? He was lying there as a helpless little baby in her arms. The One who knit her together, was now someone who had grow and developed in her womb. So awing and weird and a little incomprehensible at the same time.
At the brunch I gave away a Tupperware door prize, so now ladies in the church know who I am and that I sell Tupperware. Funny thing is that I won a door prize too! From Scrapbooker's Paradise - paper and a pen and glitter and brads and some blank cards and envelopes and bling to put on cards and rub on words and a scrapbooking magazine. It was better than mine, let me tell you! So I did pretty good, if I do say so myself.
And the last thing about the brunch that I loved was that I got a hug. I know it's a small thing, but I miss all the hugs I used to get when we lived in Brandon. Since then I really don't hug a lot of people. A and K occasionally, my family every time I see them (which is good!) and DH and R constantly. But not people at church. I felt included - because Cathy was giving hugs to everyone at the table and then gave me one too. It was good.
I am so thankful for the church that God has given to us to be our home and that I am feeling a part of things, just because I am me, not because I am a pastor's wife. It's good, very good. We are blessed!