Packages

What is your very first Christmas memory? Colored lights? Scent of pine? Cheesy Christmas music? A cherished new toy? Think about it. Let it stir around in the stew of your mind for awhile.

For me it was seeing my mother stuffing brightly colored packages into her bedroom closet. That closet was off limits to everyone in the house including my father. But somehow I just could not seem to forget those packages.

While mother worked on laundry in the basement I wandered into her room. I stretched up on my tippy toes to reach the closet doorknob and slowly opened it. The sunlight from the room fell on the colored paper packages generating magical sparkles. I stood there mesmerized.

I began to reach toward the packages when Mother’s voice stopped me cold.

“What are you doing?” she snapped.

I froze and all the magic melted into nothingness.

“Good little girls wait for Santa. Go back to your room,” she  said as she slammed the closet door shut.

Somehow I toddled across the hall to my room and wondered who Santa was and if he or she was hiding in Mother’s closet? In the years that followed I never believed much about Santa but I did remain intrigued with mother’s closet, hoping to see more packages.

Perhaps your Christmas memories are not visions of sugar plums dancing in your head either? But I can tell you that by age seven I discovered the TRUTH of Christmas and HE has made all the difference in my life. Jesus is the TOTAL package!

“So the Word became human and made His home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen His glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.”  John 1:14 New Living translation

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Perhaps you have accepted the gift, the TOTAL package, but you keep Him under the tree of your heart and peek at Him every Christmas and maybe again at Easter?

Trust me, this is the one gift you need more than you can imagine. He left His riches in heaven and  came into our world so He could take our place of pain, punishment and sorrow in this life, sparing us from an eternity of anguish IF we take Him and unwrap Him in our lives daily.

Each year at Christmastime I attempt to focus more on Jesus and His Birthday than the last year. Sometimes I’m successful and sometimes I totally blow it. But I know HIM well enough by now that I’m assured HE understands me and fills every flaw with HIS amazing grace.  HE encourages me to keep seeking to draw closer throughout the coming new year. Nothing I have found in this life compares to the joy of knowing JESUS.

I encourage you to reopen the gift of Jesus. Explore as a child full of wonder at the King of Kings, the Almighty God and the best friend you’ll ever have… play with Him everyday.

Merry Merry!

“And so if you meet me and forget me, you’ve lost nothing but if you meet Jesus and forget Him, you’ve lost everything.”

Shine on. . .
karan k