Magic

"The poison of the ordinary has deadened our senses to the magic of the moment." -Max Lucado

I take everything in life for granted. Education. Health. Jobs. Loved ones. Friends. Family. Even things like Christmas. This holiday season, like every other holiday season, I feel the magic. I want the magic. I get excited about the lights, cookies, music, present wrapping, plays, ballets, concerts, parades, trees, snow, mountains, dresses, tinsel, fires, hot chocolate, baking, time with loved ones, etc. I let the Christmas magic sweep over, but I need to remember that it is all to celebrate the birth of my Lord and Savior. What does His birth mean to me? It means that the example, the model of Christ's love was sent to this earth so that I may strive to  live like Him. It means that God sent His one and only son to love me and to die an awful death on the cross so that I may live eternally in heaven. This Christmas season, I am celebrating His life, the gift of my Savior. Our great God sent this perfect image of love, an everlasting and unconditional love, to let us know we are not alone and to eventually free us from our sins by way of the cross. I need to remember that everyday of the year. Not just during Christmas and Easter. I also need to be grateful for all that he has blessed me with. Everything I have came from him. They are privileges, not rights. I am BLESSED to have a loving family. I am BLESSED be as healthy as I am. I am BLESSED to have the opportunity at an education. I am BLESSED to have food to nourish my body and a roof over my head. I am BLESSED to have the means to buy loved one Christmas presents. I am blessed by all that I have which yield to such a wonderful life. Yet in my everyday life I find them to be simply ordinary. God didn't create us to live ordinary lives, we were created to live extraordinary ones. This Christmas season, in the magic, I am going to find Him, His light, in all that is part of the Holiday cheer. And I pray that I would be reminded that He and everything He has given me are wonderful, magical gifts.