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Christmas...
it's a word that spark so many images and emotions. Decorated Christmas trees, baking cookies, music, lights, presents, Nativity scenes, gestures of good will, family gatherings, and pumpkin pie to name a few.
Happiness, ...
anxiety, ...
exhaustion, ...
anticipation, ...
elation, ...
obligation, ...
magic, ...
But for some people, Christmas brings up other images and emotions. An empty house, a quiet home, a lost loved one, memories in every corner... loneliness.
We live in a broken world. Sickness, divorce, death, custody weekends, ... loneliness still exists... even on Christmas.
There are people all around us, crying out to be invited, desperate to be noticed on a very lonely day.
Look around you...
... the widower spending his first Christmas alone...
... the couple who's gone through a miscarriage in silence...
... the divorced mom facing her first holiday without the kids...
... the elderly neighbor who's children and grandchildren are far away...
... the faithful couple with children serving overseas...
... the newlyweds far from home...
... the teenager who's parents can't stop fighting long enough to notice the date...
And the list goes.
This Christmas...
what would happen if we just asked for eyes to see the heartache around us?
What would happen...
if we just extended one more invitation and opened our homes?
What would happen...
if we just opened our hearts to one more?
This Christmas... lets refine our definition of family and expand our holiday to reach just one more. Together we can share the love of Christ with a hurting and desperate world on the most significant of days.
As we celebrate Love's entrance into the world, let us honor that moment by pouring out the same love on a broken society. Can there be any greater testimony to the work that Christ has done in us?
This Christmas...
What would happen...
if we reached out?
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