THE GIFT

THe GiFt

Everyone loves to receive gifts; and with Christmas fast approaching there will be many gifts to get and many to give. Gifts say "I care". To give a gift to someone is to acknowledge them in some way; to say thank you, to share and make smile or simply to convey a special sentiment. A simple gift can often speak what mere words cannot.

"YOU" are a gift more precious than any diamond mined in the earth. God made you special and you are here on earth to be a gift to every life you touch! You are a gift to your mom or dad, maybe you are a mom or a sister or aunt or friend. There is no gift more unique and special than you. You are a one of a kind, priceless gift.

Around this time I love to watch "It's A Wonderful Life". (Which comes on in the US this weekend. Yaaay!) If you've never watched it, I urge you to catch it on TV, youtube or rent it. It's about a man named George Bailey who is about to commit suicide, thinking he’d be better off dead,  until an angel sent to him shows him just how wonderful his life really was.

One of my favorite lines from the movie was this: "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" 

Maybe you have had thoughts like George. Thinking the world or others would be better off without you. Maybe you just wish you were never born. I'm here to tell you that you are wrong! Your life has touched an innumerable amount of lives; many, you’ve never even known about or considered. Without your link in the chain of their lives, disaster could potentially of had rippled through countless lives.

Take stock of your special-ness and unique-ness. You are loved, wanted and needed by God. You are a Gift from Heaven given to residents of the world to add to their lives. God has set you as light in the world. A light that is most needed! Keep shining in the lives around you!

This holiday as you give gifts and get gifts and see others do the same, take a moment to reflect on how much you, yourself are loved. If you still grapple to come up with anything: God loves you, extremely much! Keep touching lives as your live is touched by God’s goodness and mercy.

2000 years ago, God sent the most priceless gift imaginable; Jesus Christ. He has touched more lives than any other person of thing in existence. Jesus is what Christmas is all about. God set the precedent for giving unselfishly and sacrificially to those He loved, even when we didn’t love Him back. Jesus was and still is the most Awesome gift one could ever give or receive!

You too are a gift and I think you're pretty awesome too :)

God Bless.

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