It’s easy to look around this time of the year and realize how blessed you. You might have a nice house, a car or two or three, several televisions in your house, great kids, great parents, great friends, etc… you get the idea
It’s easy, right? Maybe you have it good. But there are others in the world who don’t have it as “good” as you do. (And what is “good” anyway?)
There are always opportunities. Opportunities to spend a little more time with people. There may not always be “time” to spend with folks – that’s why we have to get really keen on finding opportunities and making the most out of them. For me, it’s sometimes asking the “second question” – not stopping at “How are you doing?” but asking “How are you really doing?“. I don’t always ask the second question.
Sometimes, I wish people would ask me the second question. Some days (like today) I desperately need to feel loved and needed, valued – cherished. I’ve got God, but I also want to be needed by others.
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs 15:23
Look for opportunities. Especially around the holidays. Folks are happy – but maybe just on the outside. How will you get to know what’s really going on in the inside? Ask.
And you won’t always know what to say. And that’s okay too. Sometimes just “sitting in the ashes” can be comfort enough. To feel that what one feels is valid – that it matters. God thinks it does. And that we do. And doesn’t expect us to be cold or robotic or “perfect” – God loves us just the way we come.
Broken is okay to God, He loves you and I the same. Spread some cheer this holiday and there for someone.
Truth Seeker 