It's Only One Day

I am one of the people who thoroughly rave about my birthday -- which, by the way, is May 15th.  I have a policy that it is the only day out of the year that I get to do for me, about me, around me, and I do not feel guilty about it.  After all, it's only one day, right?

So if I take this perspective about my own birthday, why shouldn't Jesus?  If we are blessed to have 365, why can we not give Jesus this one day (December 25) to celebrate Jesus' birth?

What's troubling for me around this subject is that not only does Jesus NOT get the one day, but people become severely depressed.  So much so that it's become a "thing" that doctors have defined.  So are people so self-absorbed that we can't give Jesus only one day?  It would be one thing to be so selfish that we don't acknowledge the day of Jesus' birth; it is another to allow that selfishness to manifest into something that causes a breakdown for us.

Essentially, all I'm saying is that it's only one day.  One day to say "Thank You"; one day to say "I appreciate you"; one day to be grateful for the previous 364 days and the upcoming 364 days.  Remember, it's the same day each year so let the love start today (Dec 27, 2015) so on Dec 25 in 2016, if God allows you to see it, celebrate the day and be gracious in your gift-giving.  Give the free gifts of love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.  You have these in you and giving them away blesses you as much as it does the one to whome you are extending it.  How does that work?  Great question:  you see, "inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me..." (Matt 25:40).  Just do what Jesus did and that is the best birthday gift you can give to God.

#justoneday

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#overatmidnight

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