Core

Since the holidays are just around the corner, close your eyes and let me paint you a picture . . .


Christmas morning and the children come to the tree.
Eyes lit up like saucers at what greets them.
Lights and ribbons and ornaments and magic.
Beneath the tree, boxes and bags of every size and shape.
Big ones, tiny ones, odd-shaped.
Large bags, little bags, lumpy bags.
Foil wrapping paper, matte wrapping paper, plain brown bag wrapping paper,
funnies wrapping paper, printed wrapping paper.
Shiny, sparkly, glittering amidst the twinkling Christmas lights.
It is quite a sight.
Then the unwrapping begins.
And what is inside every single one of those boxes and bags and packages?
What makes up the core of every gift?


LOVE!


Now, let me paint you another picture . . .


On any given day, as you run around in circles through your own daily insanity,
what do you see?
You see gifts!
Wrapped in brown skin, yellow skin, white skin, black skin, tan skin.
Some are big and some are tiny.
Some are flashy and some are meek.
Some are lumpy and some are massive.
And what is inside every single one of those gifts that you see?
What makes up the core of every person?


LOVE


Learn it. Live it. Teach it.