DAY THIRTEEN: THE ARRIVAL OF LOVE

12/13/24

The Arrival of Love.

Love is in the air, or so it is supposed to be. Culture tells us this season should be the arrival of love. Whether it’s movies like The Holiday that tell us we should find the love of our life in an entirely different country, or The Grinch that tells us we should find loved ones to surround us during the holidays, or A Christmas Story that tells us if we receive the perfect gift it means that we are loved. I mean who didn’t want a red ryder bb gun?

It is this expectation of love that leads to what psychologist have deemed “The Holiday Blues.” Where if we don’t have the Hallmark Christmas then something is wrong. Something or some one is missing.

But what if there was a love that lasts? A love that outlasts the holiday season and changes everything, not just for the month of December but for all of eternity.

During the Advent season we celebrate the single greatest act of love this world has ever seen. That God SO LOVED the world, he gave his one and only son on a rescue mission to seek and save the lost.

More than looking for love in another Christmas movie, or a Mariah Carey song, or in giving or receiving the best gift, we look to our first love.

- Caden Dulmage