+ It is almost time, it is almost here, the
glorious Feast of Christmas this year! We have spent weeks preparing both
spiritually and materially! We have prepared special gifts for people we love,
or even perhaps people we don’t even know – more, maybe, this year than in
others. But the one question remains:
what are we going to give Jesus, the center of it all, on his birthday? What
could we possibly give to one who is a God – Man – Baby?
I
can give you a hint as to what he would really like from us: it cannot be bought, it cannot be
wrapped, it cannot be transported from place to place – but it would delight him more than anything in the
entire world to receive it from us:
it is a
more deeply conscious spiritual understanding of what his whole coming to
earth was all about in the first place! If Jesus, where he is now –
at the right of the Father - could see into our minds and hearts and find
“quantities of the knowledge of the mysteries that he came to share with us” –
a deeper grasp of them, a better handle on them – then he would “leap and dance
for joy” that “another one FINALLY GOT THE MESSAGE,” finally began
to appreciate what his coming to
earth was all about, finally began to allow it to make a difference in the way they live their daily lives – in the way
they help one another out, from the heart!
A
very big birthday present from us, then, would have to be for
us to sit in silent and quiet meditation, when he arrives in the mangers of our
churches throughout the land on Christmas Eve, and for us to say – especially
after receiving him in Holy Communion – I
GET IT! I GET IT, JESUS! I
BELIEVE IN YOU WHO HAVE COME FROM GOD TO SAVE ME FROM MY SINS AND GIVE
ME EVERLASTING LIFE. I TRUST YOU
ABSOLUTELY FOR EVERYTHING! AND I
LOVE YOU, REALLY LOVE YOU, WHO
ARE SO CLOSE TO MY HEART, WITH ALL I’VE GOT!
And I will prove my love, Jesus, by living a changed life, especially caring for all brothers and sisters of the
human family you place in my path who need my help.
There
is still time to think and pray and study and gather more
information about Jesus the Person –
before Tuesday evening – so that we can give
him our whole being: mind, heart and soul on that Christmas Eve night – and
he can give to us his entire self, for always – just as he delights in doing, always!
The time has come: let Him
enter, the Lord; for he is king of glory!
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