I love Christmas! I love celebrating our Savior with those around me. I love Jesus more now than I did earlier and I love the call on my life to give up everything to Him, our Creator, our Lover, my free will given to my Master and Lord. I long to see Him more in this world. I long to be with Him both now and in the fullness of eternity.
But at the present my heart is heavy. I continue to be bombarded with the pain of this life and the tragedy of the effects of sin in this world. Pain, sorrow, brokenness, loneliness and the like. I know these are realities at all times of the year but personally those around me have had abundant sorrows in them. Through sickness, death, distress in marriage, unknown circumstances. The tears of those around me have been continually flowing and the end seems distant.
And although I love the time of Christmas the pain seems magnified as a time of celebration seems to have some of the joy stolen from it with the circumstances and realities of life on this side of Heaven.
For those of you who I have in mind in the lists above my heart pours out for you. My tears flow for you. My late nights are spent with you. My prayers continue to be spoken over you. My Savior continues to be available for you.
May Christ be given the highest praise through everything! For the One who gave up His own life will He not also raise those who trust in Him to the bountiful life that He lives now with His Father.
Through all that life may be giving you at this moment, may you find the joy that can still be found in this season of celebrating the divine made human for the benefit of all. Jesus be glorified!
