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John
1:16-18
From his fullness we have all received, grace
upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.
Always
new
Comedians have gotten much mileage telling jokes about
how bad 2016 has been. For many the year cannot end too soon. We want something
new so we can put the pain, struggle and ugliness of the year past year behind us.
But can we ever start again? Don’t we always carry the
burdens of the past into the future? Is
the past even ‘the past’ since it always is with us?
It is, but so is the Love who can make us new every
morning. Receiving and knowing the Love we are given makes us new even when the
weight of the past clings.
Receiving is the way of freedom. As we receive grace upon
grace, love from the Love who is, we move into a new year with hope and
expectation.
No matter what the year brings the Love who is will be
there, present to fill our hearts with the Joy and Love he is, even when we despair
of what is happening in the world around us.
Each day we must receive and celebrate the Love who
is, the Love who comes to us, the Love who lives in us.
And when the heart is empty or lost we must search for
the places we are most open and able to receive the Love who is. Fullness of
heart rests in knowing and receiving grace upon grace.
Maybe 2017 will drain our lives and drag us down as
badly as the year now ending. Certainly, there will be days that seem too much
for us.
But our hearts can be made new, even then, filled with
joy and beauty, if only we receive the Love given to us by the Love who is ... always here.
Pr.
David L. Miller
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