I'm excited for this holiday season. The national and local media are riddled with murder and missing persons, political wrong doing, war and rumors of war. Stepping out of our homes is like stepping into the pages of the book of Revelations.
Sadly there are family members who will not make it back home at the end of the day due to some horrific incident. Others will be minding their own business and be acted upon in ways that will literally make the Lord shed tears for his children. We are living in dark and difficult times. And despite some of our best efforts it seems as if the world is not getting better.
We are a wounded world. We are a world in need of healing.
We are a world struggling to survive morally. We, as a whole, are weary. And when you are weary you do things at a point of survival, not living.
The world is in Survival mode because we have forgotten how to live. The days go by slow but the years are flying before us. We are less than a month away from a new year. 2015 is upon us and are we better off than we have been spiritually? Emotionally?
We've taken to blaming the President, Congress and local leaders for the weariness of our nation. They have very little to do with common courtesy, human kindness, manners, home training and good parenting. I truly believe the fate of our country lies within the household. Within MY house hold and within yours, and your family's and our neighbors. I can't control the world and it's attitudes and actions. But I can control my home. I have a say in my home. In my home I can get a handle on education and employment. I can discuss gun control and being for or against. I can teach about diversity, different cultures and races and their contribution to the world. I can reiterate my moral beliefs on what the media chooses to show and how they choose to spin it. And because I have the opportunity to parent and teach within my home, in this weary world, I have a thrill of hope! And with each new day is comes a renewal of hope!
I have come to know that if you don't have hope, you really don't have anything.
Home is where we first learn to deal in the world. We learn manners, obedience, hygiene, responsibility and accountability. Or that's what we should learn. We learn it in the home and with our families, how to treat others how to share and negotiate. How to love, fight and forgive. With a thrill of hope we take these thing from our home into the world with us and we use them properly. And when it's time to establish our own homes we plant these things into the foundation and pass them on to those in our own house hold. By teaching these things we cultivate that thrill of hope to our generations. And by being strong leaders we also become a sort of "thrill of hope!"
There is nothing more hopeful then someone so motivated that their enthusiasm births a call to action! And when we put our hope into action we create change.
I guess for me, this holiday season I have feeling the call to create change. To be so enthusiastic about change that I can create that hope in others.
The birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the most epic event to bring a call of action. A gift from God above he sent us a little baby who would create such a monumental change on the earth that 2,014 years later his life still motivates us to change the world for the better because his birth and death are THE ultimate thrill of hope. It is through him and his love and grace and mercy that we are able to experience the many miracles that come throughout our lifetime.
If nothing more this holiday season I expect to experience that thrill of hope in the kindnesses we extend to each other. It's not a requirement to be friends with everyone. But you definitely don't have to be enemies eithers. Being able to have your differences and dislikes and still act civil brings hope that we can all get along.
I'm excited this holiday season because I have such a welling of hope in my heart that I have a desire to find it. Create it. Share it.
If you don't have hope then you've lost so much more than you'll ever realize. And as long at you wake up each day, even in our weariest state, each day brings hope for the better.
... Long lay the world in sing and error pining
'til he appeared and the soul felt it's worth....
We are a wounded world. We are a world in need of healing.
We are a world struggling to survive morally. We, as a whole, are weary. And when you are weary you do things at a point of survival, not living.
The world is in Survival mode because we have forgotten how to live. The days go by slow but the years are flying before us. We are less than a month away from a new year. 2015 is upon us and are we better off than we have been spiritually? Emotionally?
We've taken to blaming the President, Congress and local leaders for the weariness of our nation. They have very little to do with common courtesy, human kindness, manners, home training and good parenting. I truly believe the fate of our country lies within the household. Within MY house hold and within yours, and your family's and our neighbors. I can't control the world and it's attitudes and actions. But I can control my home. I have a say in my home. In my home I can get a handle on education and employment. I can discuss gun control and being for or against. I can teach about diversity, different cultures and races and their contribution to the world. I can reiterate my moral beliefs on what the media chooses to show and how they choose to spin it. And because I have the opportunity to parent and teach within my home, in this weary world, I have a thrill of hope! And with each new day is comes a renewal of hope!
I have come to know that if you don't have hope, you really don't have anything.
Home is where we first learn to deal in the world. We learn manners, obedience, hygiene, responsibility and accountability. Or that's what we should learn. We learn it in the home and with our families, how to treat others how to share and negotiate. How to love, fight and forgive. With a thrill of hope we take these thing from our home into the world with us and we use them properly. And when it's time to establish our own homes we plant these things into the foundation and pass them on to those in our own house hold. By teaching these things we cultivate that thrill of hope to our generations. And by being strong leaders we also become a sort of "thrill of hope!"
There is nothing more hopeful then someone so motivated that their enthusiasm births a call to action! And when we put our hope into action we create change.
I guess for me, this holiday season I have feeling the call to create change. To be so enthusiastic about change that I can create that hope in others.
The birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the most epic event to bring a call of action. A gift from God above he sent us a little baby who would create such a monumental change on the earth that 2,014 years later his life still motivates us to change the world for the better because his birth and death are THE ultimate thrill of hope. It is through him and his love and grace and mercy that we are able to experience the many miracles that come throughout our lifetime.
If nothing more this holiday season I expect to experience that thrill of hope in the kindnesses we extend to each other. It's not a requirement to be friends with everyone. But you definitely don't have to be enemies eithers. Being able to have your differences and dislikes and still act civil brings hope that we can all get along.
I'm excited this holiday season because I have such a welling of hope in my heart that I have a desire to find it. Create it. Share it.
If you don't have hope then you've lost so much more than you'll ever realize. And as long at you wake up each day, even in our weariest state, each day brings hope for the better.
... Long lay the world in sing and error pining
'til he appeared and the soul felt it's worth....
