A reflection?
Well, it’s two days since Christmas. I’m not entirely sure what to write. I guess I have just had the urge to write something since last night.
Christmas was cool. I had a chance to hang out with the family, which I hardly ever get to anymore. Even seeing my parents is rare, even though they are no more than a 50 minute drive away. It’s so easy to get caught will everything that is going on, that we miss what is important in life. I once heard this saying.
It’s all about relationships!
So true. Family, friends, even strangers on the street. It’s important to constantly take to time to invest in your relationship with all of them. We should love everybody, always.
And I suck at it. I suck at loving even the closest people to me. I want to, I try to. I just seem to mess it up everytime and put my desires and my wants before others. The coolest thing is, and I really don’t understand this, nor will I ever, is that there is one person who does love me perfectly. He loves me even when I don’t love him.
And I guess that comes back to the whole Christmas thing. We wouldn’t even have anything to celebrate if this guy didn’t love all of us so much.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” – John 3:16-17
God loves us so much, that 2,000 some years ago, He gave us His son. He sacrificed His son, so that we might be able to have a relationship with him. In view of all that He has done, lets do what we can, to the very best of our ability, offer ourselves to Him, to be a part of that relationship with Him, and those around us. Let us not stop celebrating Christ’s birth because the holiday is over, but live it every day of our lives. Let us seek and invest in those relationships every moment of everyday, let us love everyone we see or talk to, to the best of our ability. And have mercy when someone screws that up, because I know I will.
