STEWARDSHIP NURTURES US:
Gifts. Have you received a gift that made you feel in the current lingo - that person “gets me”? Did you give a gift that made someone feel that way?
Those responses tell us something unique and uplifting has happened in that relationship.
Though we are surrounded by those who love us, maybe there is a part of us that is alone, isolated, maybe even lonely. We are complex and even the people who love us best may not see all the parts of us, so a gift that reaches that quiet, closed part of us makes us feel truly happy and connected. We want to be valued and known. Are we?
The art of gifting is not about the physical gift or the cost; it comes out of deep understanding of the other, putting ourselves in another’s shoes. The miraculous and supreme example is Christ.
Christ has just become a baby and will know us from the level of our aloneness and scruffiness and search for love. Do we say, “He gets me. He really knows what I am going through”? He heals us, loves us, connects us to Him. Glory Halleluiah. How do we thank Him for His Gifts? Christ is born. glorify Him.
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