I continue to be amused by an SMS greeting received late New Year's Day from a dear friend of ours overseas.
May peace break into your home
May thieves steal your debts
May your pockets become magnets of $100 bills
And may your clothes smell of success
May love barricade you
May laughter assault your lips
May happiness hit you like a tsunami
May your tears be those of joy
And may good health linger always on your path
But most of all, may the problems you had forget your home address!
While not overly realistic perhaps, the sentiments of the wish were truly heartfelt.
How we praise God for a realistic Christian faith that reminds us to live in the abiding love of God, and in doing so, know the "fullness of life"!
Reflect on these words from the Apostle Paul taken from Philippians 4:10-13 (MSG):
I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess—happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me... Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
