I call the Christmas Season "the Season of Love"...because God so loved the world he sent his only begotten Son - 'The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us' John 1:14 .

We all love this time of the year, but maybe for different reasons:

We love to buy gifts for our family. We love this cold weather, the experience of snow for the first time. We love the SPIRIT that feels the air through all the holiday music playing everywhere. We LOVE God.

Where do you fit in among those reasons above? Me? I've felt myself become aware of others, their needs, their hurts, fears, joys, anticipations....but do they have love? Do WE have love in our hearts as God wants us to have. We don't have to buy expensive gifts to make others love us. We don't have to go out of our way to have an expensive Christmas, trying to outshine the 'Joneses'.

We only need to show love among our fellow men, the way our God showed us love so many years ago, sending his SON into the world that we might be saved. That's the greatest love that could ever be - by HIS GRACE we can have a new life with him.

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.

2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Heavenly Father, through this Christmas season in which we celebrate the birth of your dear Son, Jesus, help us to keep our minds stayed on the "reason for the season"...and the LOVE that shines forth from your dear Son. Help us to be more like Him, to be able to love without attachments, requirements, and let our light so shine that people will see the LOVE of GOD shining in our lives every day. We thank you for sending him to earth to rescue the lost, to love the worst of us, never condemning, but showing us the way through LOVE. I give you the praise, honor and glory due your name. In Jesus name, I pray. AMEN.