Saturday, December 22, 2012

Listen for Love



Christmas is full of sounds – the carols, the bells, the greetings, the horns honking, the cash registers rattling out a receipt.

But the greatest sound of Christmas happens as your family gathers and shares the meal, opens gifts, makes Ginger Bread Houses, or anything else you plan. 

When you pause and listen to all that is happening around you, I hope you hear love.  It may be disguised as …
-A remembrance from a past season
-Joy over an opened gift
-The first bite of turkey you roasted
-The satisfied sounds as everyone samples your special pecan pie 

Love is there – in all of this and more. 

Love shines in the eyes, it appears in the smiles, and it sings through your expressed words of joy, in greetings and in “I love you”.

A seven-year-old named Bobby is said to have made this observation:

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas
if you stop opening presents and listen.

Wishing you much love this Christmas season,

Merry Christmas


P Michael Biggs
Up-Words.net
Offering Hope
At Christmas

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