It Is Never Over

To Danny and Terry:

It is over.  Christmas ended at mid-night last night.  I actually slept through it.  That strikes me as odd this morning because of all the emotional, physical and spiritual energy I expended anticipating it.  Why would I sleep through the last hour?  Humans need a cause to hook themselves to, a reason to be intentionally engaged in day-to-day life.  I first realized this in organized sports.  I would expend untold physical and emotional hours belonging to that band of brothers.  I loved them and they loved me and we liked to believe we would fight and die for each other.  I lived in this community for twelve years and can still remember the devastating blow when it completely ended one Monday morning at the age of 18.  After that I spent years looking for another cause to attach myself to.  Because I had learned that great cost and physical sacrifice was a pre-requisite for admission and acceptance I applied the same logic to every other cause.  Many of these causes were destructive, self centered and addictive but I lived them with the gusto I had learned from years on the field.  Eventually I “came to my senses” and learned the greatest lesson in life, there is “the cause” which all humans long to belong, it is the cause of love, and its Mentor and Coach is Christ.  It is no opiate for the masses, it is the cure for the masses and although it is offered only one way and by only one name, Jesus, it is carried and lived out by His ambassadors. The rules are simple, love God and love others, but the life is exactly like the one I lived years ago, a life of love and absolute abundance.  The Greatest Cause and our cure for how we live now that…Christmas is over.