To be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas was just wonderful! It was a time of great thanksgiving and gratitude for all we have, all were are continually given and most importantly what is so dear and all-consuming of my heart is how great the birth of Jesus Christ was and is for us. This was an extra special holiday because of the opportunity to experience Christmas is a whole new light. We are so incredibly blessed and privileged. Even when life is hard, we usually have enough to eat, clean water to drink and a warm place to sleep. Yes, we are blessed, and blessed, and blessed some more!
What I did realize is that with these blessings also comes a responsibility...we need to share the wealth. We are not more deserving. Why we are where we are with what we have, I still do not understand. Other than we carry a heavier burden with the luxuries. It is so easy to get off track and put our hopes and dreams into things, when these things become a huge distraction and start to consume our lives. How wonderful would it be if everyone was able to live a comfortable life? I have actually realized that living with less stuff has lifted a weight off my shoulders. Yes, the things are nice and wonderful to have, but when I had them I was still missing something. There was an internal void, a light that was flickering on the inside that wanted to shine bright but was being smothered by things and the need for more things.
God has given us the opportunity to have a blessed and fortunate life. It has been life changing to realize that that does come with a cost. It is choice to keep these blessings for ourselves or to reach out and share them with a neighbor that is in need. We are all the same, oneness in God, and one is not more deserving than the next. Whether it is through giving time, resources or most importantly love...in our nation or overseas...it will make a difference in someone’s life and in yours also!
“then make my joy complete by being like-minded,
having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,
but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
~ Philippians 2:2-3
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