Wednesday, December 24, 2008

A Wonderful Christmas!

Today God loves the world so much that He gives you, He gives me, to love the world, to be His love, His compassion. It is such a beautiful thought for us---a conviction---that you and I can be that love and compassion.---Mother Teresa, from "Come Be My Light"
 
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son...John 3:16
 
This is Christmas! Why is it that we rejoice and feel something different about this time upon us? Because God gave us proof that He loves us, He gave us His Son! The devil has tried so hard to drown the Truth of Christmas. He tries to bury the truth behind the gluttonous materialism of getting, and sadly, we disciples of the King often buy in to diablo's plan. What if next Christmas we sat down with our families, and together, we decided to take some, or all, of the money we would spend on one another and give it to a family in need? What light this would bring! What compassion it would spread! In doing this, we parents would teach our children something eternal. We would teach them what sacrifice looks and feels like. Imagine waking up Christmas morning and having fewer, or maybe even, no gifts for ourselves under the tree, what a wonderful Christmas this would be! To sit together as a family and drink hot chocolate, giving glory to God for the Gift of Himself in the Incarnation, thanking Him for allowing us to help someone else in His name, on His birthday, wouldn't that be a wonderful Christmas?!
 
wkm
 
 http://wordincarnate.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-wrung-heart/

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