Of all the gifts I've ever received in my life... there is only one gift that is worth mentioning. The gift of a baby boy -- Mary's son, Jesus. Who in their right mind would ever, ever, ever, ever let their child go, give up their precious cargo? To anyone? For any amount of money? For any reason at all? And then to let him be tortured and killed by cruel, merciless men, while I stood by and watched and got my heart ripped out from inside of me? All for what? To restore fallen people back to me? I would never. Who would ever! No sane person would ever, ever do such a thing. In a hundred thousand, trillion years.
But there was someone who did. God did.
There are no words to capture this phenomenon. There is nothing else newsworthy in all of history in comparison to SUCH sacrifice... sacrifice born from Love, a divine Love I don't think I'll ever understand on this side of heaven. I am humbled, grateful, moved to tears when I remember, remember what this season is all about. Forget the decorating. The cookies, the snowflakes I'm going to hang soon, the tree that will be lit for a few weeks... but oh let me just remember His goodness. His unending goodness that has showered me with the gift of life, the gift of second chances, the gift of mercy, the gift of grace....
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amen!
ReplyDeletei see how it is, all you wanna do is talk about jesus, what about the gift i gave you for your bday? some people are never pleased.
ReplyDeleteJoana - you are a hoot!
ReplyDeleteJane - aweseome reflections. It's different now that we have kids, eh? The whole "gave his one and only begotten son" thing takes on an entirely deeper, more heartwrenching dimension.