Señor Jesús, gracias. Te hiciste hombre, siendo Rey de reyes. Pero no cualquier hombre, sino el más humilde, naciendo en un pesebre. Tu vida de amor desmedido y servicio desinteresado sigue marcando nuestros corazones. ¿El propósito de tu llegada? Ese sacrificio en la cruz. Esa sangre derramada que ofrece misericordias nuevas cada mañana. Pero la historia no termina. La muerte no pudo vencerte. Tú te entregaste y luego resucitaste con toda honra y majestad. Espero que podamos recordarte hoy y celebrar esta historia de esperanza. Los juguetes y regalos no se comparan a ti. Perdóname porque muchas veces me olvido y Tú siempre me piensas. Te amo y gracias.

“Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” [The Message]

We need to teach our daughters to distinguish between:

• A man who flatters her
  and a man who compliments her.
• A man who spends money on her
  and a man who invests in her.
• A man who views her as property
  and a man who views her properly.
• A man who lusts after her
  and a man who loves her.
• A man who believes he is God’s gift to women
  and a man who remembers a woman was God’s gift to man.

And then teach our boys to be that kind of a man.

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