1. This year is like every other year since Sarah and I have been married...8 different Christmas events to attend...wowsers! Christmas is getting expensive for us.
2. I was listening to Rudolph the RNR the other day and realized that Rudy is unlike a lot of us. Those other reindeer laughed and poked fun at and made him the butt of all their jokes. Then, one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, "Rudy with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight". Here's the kicker, "THEN HOW THE REINDEER LOVED HIM"...how many of us would have just forgiven and stepped up to the plate like Rudy did? Americans, Christians and leaders seem to like to make a list and check it twice to remember all the times that other people have hurt us. We need to be careful that we don't let those nasty reindeer in our lives keep us from living up to what God has called us to do. (P.S. Why didn't Santa stop the ridicule? Does God give us the opportunity to be forgiving or just help us to forgive?)
3. The little drummer boy struck me the other day. Just one line though, because we had to turn it because this is Sarah's least favorite song. "I have no gift to bring...Barrummmbbumm bum". We think so little of ourselves sometimes. We start to question who we are and what God was doing when he made us the way we are. We begin looking at others and think how much our lives would be better if we just were like them or had this ability. Well, we all have our own strengths and if you don't USE your's that doesn't mean that you don't have one. It means that you are sitting on an unwrapped gift that Jesus deserves and longs for you to use! You have no gift to bring? Bahumbug! We all do...find yours and use it....
4. This Christmas I have kept coming back to the nearness of Christ. That he was here. That he had a purpose and that was to come and then die and then rise from the dead and come back some day. God's spirit has been shown to me in this season by re-realizing that Jesus REALLY did come to Earth. It isn't like Santa Claus or a national, cultural tradition. It is HISTORY! Jesus did come...he has come and he will come!
5. Cherish all that you have. Family, friends, enemies... :)
Merry Christmas to all...and to all a good night
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sometimes we feel like we have no gifts to bring - but you're right - we all have them to offer back to God.
Peg
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