Choosing What to Give ~ He Has Had Enough Sorrow

Greetings Dear Reader,

As we prepare our thinking about what to give we may wish to tick off a few things not to give.   One of things that we are good at giving each other is sorrow.  We are excellent at resurrecting pain and hurt and inflicting them on one another during the holiday season.

We bring to the gatherings our own anger and bitterness over things of the past.  We wrap them up in pride and self-centered thinking.  We blind ourselves to the good in others and only focus on what has hurt or angered us in the past. 

We could choose to approach things with a truly thankful heart for our family.  We could, simply put, decide that others have had enough sorrow.  We can choose to infuse the world with joy and love.  We can be forgiving, kind, loving even when it hurts us to do so. 

We choose how we treat each other.  We choose what we do to each other.  We choose to visit the past and its sorrows on people.  If we are going to enter into a time of thankfulness and giving why not do it by first laying aside our own pride and resentment? 

As I prepare my heart for this time that closes the year I have so much for which to be thankful and so much I wish to give.  I must do so first by assuring that my private hurts and losses are not center stage.  I must put Christ center state and allow all the love he holds for us to radiate in all that I think and do. 

We have all done enough to hurt each other.  It is time to grow up and be the ones who give forgiveness and kindness wrapped in the love of  the one who always forgives us.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”

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