The Christmas story is familiar, yet today something new has struck my heart.
To leave the comforts of home.. warmth, cozy bed, familiar surroundings, routines, everything in a place chosen by you.
To travel to a cold, dark, unwelcoming, lonely place… for the sake of another.
Tomorrow I travel from my new, cozy, beautiful home… to visit my son in that old hollow house, a painful place with dark emotions.
Do I want to go back to that house? No…
But yet I go…
Love drives me to envelope my son in a warm embrace, bringing hope and joy and strength and comfort.
My dichotomy within is striking… my struggle is real… yet this parent’s heart loves.
To understand the love Jesus felt… the dichotomy in his being… never will I come close. A glimpse today, though, has touched my heart. Today, my heart loves in a new way, the God who came to earth, from the heavenly realms, and gave his being to love us humans.
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