This Christmas season, I’m challenging myself (and you) to sit longer with that truth. Let gratitude for what Christ has already done loosen our grip on guilt, bitterness, and the need to be right. Only when we receive His final forgiveness can we begin to offer it to others - and to ourselves.

"We all have the capacity to misread, misinterpret and misunderstand the Word of God—especially when we’re sure that we have something completely figured out.' Jeremy Lallier

Can we give life? Are we capable of giving life? The only giver if life is God who created life, creates life, and continues to create life. Think of the fact that thousands of years ago God gave life where there was none. He gave light where there was none. He created life before it ever existed, Genesis 1.