Why do we give this season? Why does it seam that during the holidays are hearts are open and our eyes see things we normal miss, and our ears hear things we normally selectively block out?
It seems the last, the lost, the least and the little come to the for front in the holidays, and we focus all our efforts on others, and try to forget ourselves. But you know that is exactly what we are called to do every day of our lives. Jesus tells the lawyer of the Pharisee’s the greatest commandment, the greatest thing we have to do throughout and through our lives is to love God. And then as He usually does, Jesus expands on that, and the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. You see in this one sentence, Jesus tells us our lives should be defined by love, love of God and love of the other, just as we love ourselves. We need to look out for the person next to us, just as much as we do ourselves. We need to want for them the things we want for ourselves. We need to give to them the things that we give to ourselves.
This season of Advent is time spent reflecting on the coming Messiah, it is also time we tend to see the last, lost, least and little more. Not that they are more this season, we are just more focused on them, and that is how all of life should be! Focused on the other, rather then the self!
Dear daddy God, help me to not stare at my navel, but to look beyond myself and give to others as I want to give to myself. Guide me to so love the other, that they become the focus of my life, so that your love will overflow from me to them and we will all be bathed in the mercy and grace that flows from you throne. Amen.
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