In considering gifts this season, ask [God] for a moment of wonder.
Mine came this morning.
With a blanket, a cup of coffee and twenty-something degree weather, I witnessed a meteor shower, one of my very favorite things.
Was that my moment? No.
I saw something else.
I saw God's elation. I was imagining those shepherds on a hillside looking up at the stars, just as I was, and suddenly, in my mind's eye, I tried to picture the very moment before Jesus was born.
Like a small child who bursts onto the Christmas morning scene of toys and gifts, God must have been barely able to contain His emotion the moment before He burst onto the scene that first Christmas morning.
He squished Himself into our skin as Jesus and came to rescue us for all time. How could He have not been about to burst with excitement?
Was He seeing, in that moment, every one of us someday calling Him God? Making His trek on earth, His excruciating time on the cross, His rejection from us worth it?
Isn't Christmas about creating emotion of joy in others? Put God on your gift-giving list.
Give Him the gift of your heart, saying thanks for the squish of Himself.
Yours will be the emotion of joy.
