Christmas Spirit

Saturday night my wonderful husband took me to the Piano Guys concert.... AMAZING!! They are more popular as of these last few years and this was their first tour.
They are very funny and super talented. I was laughing and singing and feeling the spirit. These are LDS (Mormon) middle aged dads but they were great!
What as nice is you had a mixture of fun and a mixture of spiritual especially since it was mainly a Christmas concert.
Check them out on YouTube if you don't know who they are (The Piano Guys)
One of their performances almost brought me to tears. It was Angels We Have Heard on High, and it was SO LOUD but I felt the Spirit SO strong and it was unbelievable.

Then on Sunday our Ward always does a musical Sacrament Meeting on the Sunday before Christmas.... it's my favorite Sacrament meeting =]
That was always a beautiful day, one youth group sang "Come unto Christ", it was a beautiful song!
And of course the Piano/Organ Duet to O Holy Night =]

Then in Relief Society the speaker told us to close our eyes and listen to scriptures about Mary & Joseph and put ourselves in their shoes. Now what really got me was the opening where she set the scene for us, not the scripture reading.

She said remember how scared she must of been, no doctors, no medicine, no pads for after delivery, and no comfy beds.
And it just really hit me, because recently I had a baby boy and i'm pretty young but not as young as Mary was (about 16), I was 22 and 23 when I had a baby.
Thankfully she had a wonderful husband there with her to help.

Now I know the pain of delivery but only to 9cm contraction pains not actually having the baby with pain. And I got to wondering where was her mom? I don't know what I would of done without my mom especially the first time. She had kids before she helped me through my breathing through contractions and talked to distract me.
And I am very grateful for her. So where was Mary's mom what did she think of all of this and did she help her?

Let me also point out I was VERY grateful for my husband, Spencer, as well. He's not so great with the actual delivering baby part but he stands by or sits close by and it's just a comfort to have him there even though he can't do a whole bunch. There are people there that know what they are doing and can help me.

With my second baby my mom had to watch Isaac but she stayed with me until Spencer got there, and I would of done fairly well even if she wasn't there but it was good to have her close by and when I saw Spencer finally there I breathed a sigh of relief just knowing he was there and he held my hand when I needed him too.

And I can imagine that Angels or Heavenly Father helped Mary & Joseph prepare and know what to expect and I can just see Joseph holding her hand and just being there for her. Even though he couldn't of fully understand what she was going through.

(Side note supposedly back in the day labor & delivery wasn't as painful as it has become now so it's possible she wasn't in tons of pain or really scared but we weren't there so honestly we don't know all of it)

I would love to talk to Mary about her thoughts and memories of that moment in her life though, that would be an interesting story.

Anyways it was all a very great Sunday on the spiritual side of it all and thought I would share. It may not seem like Christmas much this year but still an amazing time of year.

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and a happy new year