“I pray that you will deliver me from this selfish tendency to think about me and my lousy Christmas this year. It is not lousy, I just feel that way.”
Dear Dad,
It is tough this year to want to celebrate the "Holidays." Right now you are in the midst of an eternal celebration that I wish I could join in, but you are now in Heaven and I am still down here. I know that you are in perfect health now and you have heard "Well done, you good and faithful servant." I would not bring you back from that, even if it were possible, but this year in particular, it is not the "Happiest" time of the year.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I thank you for the wonderful earthly example of your fatherly character. Dad walked closer to you than most and I was the better for it. I do thank you for the gift of your son Jesus and how hard that must have been. To go to all the trouble to make a way of Salvation for inconsiderate, boorish people like me. I pray that you will deliver me from this selfish tendency to think about me and my lousy Christmas this year. It is not lousy, I just feel that way.
I thank you for your loving kindness and your sometimes severe Grace. I can only imagine that you took dad when you did to keep the rest of us from the medical nightmare that is cancer. I do thank you for that.
I ask that you will use me to comfort those who I might be able to comfort. The only way that I will accomplish this is through the comfort that I know you will provide. I pray for my kids, that you will give me wisdom in helping them see your fatherly character through my actions. If you never do anything more than what you did when you gave me the gift of eternal life through your own son Jesus, I have more than I would have ever deserved.
Thank you God for yet another Christmas, help me to focus on the true meaning this year.
Your grateful son, Tim
Tim Meyer lives in Florida and regularly contributes to Graceland through 'Inside Out'. Tim lost is father, Jerry, on July 21 of this year.