Come Home This Christmas!

Paul writes in Romans 12:9 and 18: “Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. . . .  If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”  One thing I think we all can agree on is that we live in a competitive society.  

Knowingly or unknowingly, out of the dualism we’ve been taught and embrace, we’ve set up systems that celebrate winners and losers, and by gal I will be found on the winning side.  It’s to this reality that Love speaks this Advent/Christmas season, and the words of Paul refocus our competitive nature offering a path of “Oneing” through Christ: “outdo one another in showing honor; let love be genuine.”  Howard Thurman writes:

“I will make of my talents, whatever they are, a High Priest of Truth.  This I do when I use them to enrich life, to render life more human, to make life more gracious and personal than it was otherwise. . . . I will make of my remembering a High Priest of Truth.  I purpose in my heart that I shall not use my memory to store up those things which fester, poison and destroy my living, my life, or the living and the life of others. . .   I will make myself a High Priest of Truth.  I will recognize the supremacy of the Ideal of Godlikeness to which more and more, by God’s help, I will give myself. . .   I will make of my life a High Priest of Truth.”

Come home this Christmas to Love; receive God’s love, and love as you have been loved!  “Let love be genuine . . . outdo one another in showing honor.” Strive to make life a High Priest of this Truth.  I look forward to seeing you in church!

Advent/Christmas Blessings,

Pastor Doug

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