Given
that this blog is the last one you will read before we celebrate New Years’ Day,
since I never write anything while on vacation, I felt it only appropriate that
in today’s blog I should give you your Christmas Gift from me. I am writing a
book about this theme and by next Christmas I should be done with the project!
But
today as I thought through what I could possibly give that would be meaningful
to each of you and that could have a positive impact on your lives, I decided
that the greatest gift I could give to you this Christmas would be for me to
say a prayer to Heavenly Father asking Him to bless each of you with the things
your hearts stand in need of this Christmas. I will ask that He bless you with
peace. I will ask Him to help each of you to recognize the miracles that He is
bringing into your lives. I will ask Him to help you feel of His infinite
love for you. That will be my prayer offered on your behalf this Christmas.
I
know that God the Father loves you and so does Jesus Christ. I know they love
each one of you infinitely. I know that because God sent His son Jesus Christ
down to earth to be born of Mary knowing His son would grow to adulthood and
then willingly suffer the weight of all our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane
and be tortured and crucified on the cross at Calvary. God did that even though
He had the power to stop Jesus’ suffering at any time – yet He chose not to
because He knew that stopping it would have made it impossible for the rest of
His children to return to live with Him again someday. As a parent myself, I
cannot even begin to fathom just how difficult it would have been to not step
in and stop your child from suffering the way Christ suffered, especially when
you had the power to. But thinking about that from a parent’s perspective truly
helps me understand just how infinite the love that both God the Father and
Jesus Christ have for each one of us. And their love isn’t just for all of us
collectively, it is for each of us individually – I know that because whether
there were billions of us or just one of us, God would have still sent His son
Jesus Christ to atone for just one of us, and Jesus Christ would have willingly
done it for just one of us. For any one of us alone they would have still made
that sacrifice. That is how much each one of us matters to them.
We
are each God’s child and Jesus Christ is our elder brother, and they both love
us unconditionally and eternally. That I know. I know they are aware of every
detail of what is happening in our lives. They care more about us than we can
begin to imagine. And their greatest desire is for us to have joy. It is my
testimony that if we put our faith and trust in God, following Jesus Christ’s
perfect example, we will, in fact, have joy.
Remember
that miracles happen, especially during Christmas. I wish you the very merriest
Christmas! I will write again on January 1st 2018.
Con
amor,
Vero
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