'Tis Always the Season to Love - It's the Best Gift to Give or Get

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  1 John 4:11 Click link to sing a Christmos carol:   Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains 

Our tree while on the 05-07 mission in Georgia working with the soldiers at Ft. Benning--home of the infantry.

 A Christmas Reflection . . .

It seems to take about the same amount of effort to be mean or rude as it does to be decent and kind.  Certainly the mental and physical effects are different, but what happens on the inside to the recipient of our personal interactions, is largely incomprehensible.  There is really no way to measure the full impact, but we know by certain outcomes whether a person has been delivered more positives or negatives.  A person can choose to use Satan’s tools of negative words and actions to bring down, or be a disciple of Christ and lift up.  Everyone, no matter the circumstances from which they come, can be an instrument to build others and help them feel like a worthwhile part of the world.  Positive regard perpetuates human happiness.

Our Lord and Savior directs us to love one another—love one another—love one another . . .  This message reverberates throughout the Holy Scriptures and it is not antiquated.

He knows our human tendencies to take out our anger, hurt, disappointments, and such on others.  He also knows the worth of every individual, the innate respect each person deserves, and the need we all have to be told, through others on the earth, that we DO matter.  If we can be an instrument in delivering this message, we help others to grow and contribute positively.  We also benefit from the positive we give out.  It comes back one hundred fold in more ways than we sometimes recognize.  These are the blessings promised by Him to those who do as He did while on the earth.

We have an assignment in the world, a duty if you will, a purpose to living—the most important one we’ll ever have—to LOVE!

If this purpose is fulfilled, it will keep us on the strait and narrow path back to our Heavenly Father.  Why is it sometimes so difficult to see in others what our Savior sees and to simply love them?   Love begets benevolent service and service enriches individual souls, which grows humanity.  A single person loving CAN change the world.  He did.

                                                                               

Feeling the love of daughters at the Fantasy of Lights in Georgia