Feeling good is a high expectation for this season. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year sums it up in its lyrics:
It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap- happiest season of all
Happy feelings are great. And yet they are not the essence of Christmas. It is about God deciding to love us. Love is first and foremost not an emotion but a matter of the will.
C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity observes, "But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
Romans 5: 8: "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners Christ died for us."
Knowing that God loves us despite our up and down feelings about Him and others should make all of us makes the hap -happiest people of all!
Prayer: "God, forgive us when we wait to feel loving to You and others. Rather give us the strength to act loving to you and others, in this moment. Amen."
Gift to others: Do one act of love to someone that you presently don't "feel" very loving towards with no expectation of reward or recognition"
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