Tis the Season of spreading the 'Spirit of Love'

The spirit of Christmas is truly the spirit of Love. Jack and his adorable wife, are really the sweetest friends who live and spread the spirit of Love!!! It seems we can’t do even the smallest kind deed with out them pouring out their whole hearts right back to us.

When I took dinner into them the week before, I couldn’t find them home. I was concerned because their blinds were drawn, which wasn’t like them. So, I took their dinner next door to my friend Kathy so she could deliver it when they arrived home. They assured me they felt all was well with them, because Jack had brought their garbage cans in that morning for them. (They are about 20 years younger!)

When I was baking last week for our cookie exchange, the door bell rang and there sweet Jack appeared with this gigantic poinsettia which was almost as big as he is.

He has the white hair like Santa and an a twinkle in his eye. (I have never been able to take a good picture of this wonderful man... here he is asking why I am taking his picture! LOL)
 He was so cute about the poinsettia as he kept turning it and adjusting it on our coffee table to show its best side. He looked at me and winked,
“ I told them I didn’t want to buy a Pig in the Polk!”
I started to laugh and asked , “ A Pig in the Polk?”
He said it was a Southern phrase! And then he explained its meaning.  He sure didn't bring me a Pig in the Polk! It is beautiful and practically fills up our living room and  hides our whole piano!

 So, for all my Southern friends, I learned a new phrase ya’ll probably say and I hadn’t heard before!:-)

I adore this sweet man who is several years older than my father in law. That is right, he is getting close to  90! Not only does Jack go around our neighborhood doing good for his friends, but he has driven across town on many occasions to go see our dad.. Dad can’t remember their visits or even who he is, but it means the world to us.
Jack found out some news this month that he is once again fighting the good fight against cancer, and also he fell the week before and broke a rib. Yet, he gives and serves others continually!
He personifies the very essence of the ‘Spirit of Love’ the whole year long...Not just during this Christmas season when we Christians honor our Savior and Lord, who showed us by his own example of the greatest Love of all!

Luke 8:16
“No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light."

Christians are blessed with the light of Christ and if we are living a life of a Christian, this Christ like living shows in us and through us, as it does Jack.  By letting our own lights shine, we can respond to the overwhelming love that Christ has shown us how to do, then reveal His love, one to another.
 

May you feel and share your beautiful light with those around you!
~♥~