On a cold winter’s day, a little boy with no home was walking along the streets of the city wishing he had a warm place to stay and had a nice warm meal to eat. As he walked along those streets, he passed by a home beautifully decorated with lights and as he gazed intently into the window of that home, saw a nice fireplace burning with wood as the children where gathered around the Christmas tree opening their gifts while their mother and father where laughing and rejoicing as they saw the joy in their children’s faces. Tears fell from the little boy’s eyes as he saw the happiness within that beautifully decorated home and how he wished he had parents to give him even a little gift for a season such as this. His eyes fell downcast as sadness filled his heart. The wind and snow began to pick up as he started to walk away from the home he just passed by, his hands turned numb as he started to shiver vigorously in the pouring snow. He saw a large tattered cargo box in a nearby alley that looked large enough to fit him and he hid there as the wind and snow began to get heavier and heavier by the second. His heart pounded as his pulse and breathing decreased significantly, he felt cold, he felt pain, and he felt exhausted…
As he closed his eyes, he saw a light shining brightly like the sun with a Man dressed in white stained with blood whose pierced hands extended out to him calling him by his name and said, “child, no longer will you suffer or feel pain, no longer will you hunger and thirst, no longer will you be an orphan with no Father…For I left my house that you may have a home, for I chose to be beaten that you may be protected, for I gave my life that you may have yours, for I rose from the dead that you may have hope…I love you and I have watched over you since you were born, your pain is my pain and your burden is my burden, and forever you will be with me….” heat filled the boy’s body as he stretched his arms to reach those pierced hands, he felt joy and the sadness went away…
By HLMLG
