Would You Like a Gift Receipt With That?

This one will be short. Time is precious and we are so close to Christmas. December goes too fast. I love the anticipation of getting to Christmas more than anything. The lights, the love, the decorations, the feelings of good will, the music, the messages, the LIGHT. The TRUE MEANING. One Heavenly Child sent to light up the world with goodness and love. Sent with the greatest gifts of peace, and hope and the love of His father-to share with the world and show the world how to keep sharing those gifts after He was gone.

Christmas focuses on giving, and I LOVE THAT! I love giving. It makes my heart joyful. But I know that receiving is important, too. To truly be happy, and be immersed in Christmas love, we have to be willing to receive it. To receive hope. To receive gestures of kindness. To open our hearts that have shrunk because of hurt or injustice, and expand them to unrestrained forgiveness and acceptance. To see the good in the giver-even if the giver isn't perfect. To take in love and let it change our hearts. To take the love that is given and pay it forward. That's what it's about. Love doesn't go one way. It goes many ways. It passes from giver to receiver, and then back again, and ripples outward from there to carry the currents that will turn into waves and change the world. So just remember this Christmas season that the way to keep Christmas spirit alive is to give -and then have the grace to RECEIVE as well. Everyone involved will be blessed and changed, and impacted. And I will be grateful. Chances are-you will too. Merry Christmas with

ALL MY LOVE TO YOU.

Please receive it. It comes directly from my heart.

You make me grateful.

IN ALL YOU SAY, IN ALL YOU DO, LET HIS LOVE SHINE ON THROUGH YOU.