The Nicest Gift
Finding time to be present in the present can be more difficult than we think. At times we don’t even know that it is happening because it has been a slow progression. It is a reminder of a different era and the heartwarming story in White Christmas. Bob Wallace and Phil Davis shot to success after World War II as stage entertainers. They had the Midas touch. Everything they touched turned to gold. So work they did. Unfortunately for Bob, work is all he saw, to the detriment of his personal life. His long time partner comes to him concerned over settling down in life:
Phil Davis: My dear partner, when what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left.
Bob Wallace: When I figure out what that means I'll come up with a crushing reply.
Phil Davis: Ever since the day we became producers, you were a changed man. You’ve gone absolutely berserk with work. And the strange thing is you like it.
Work, life, stress, the festivities of the season can keep us distracted from what is right in front of us. When Bob and Phil’s former commanding officer, an innkeeper in Vermont, is in trouble, Bob is ready to run back to New York… But Phil reminds him that “the problem is here…now.”
The things of this world, whether they are things in our past or things that need to be done in the future. Those things on our mind, whether they be good or bad, can keep our attention somewhere else and miss the things that need our attention here and now. That the season in front of us can be time to draw closer to our Savior, who came to earth to draw us into his presence. Jesus said:
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”. Matthew 11:28-30
Jesus continues to call us into his presence this Christmas Season.
For Bob Wallace, he realizes the need in Vermont and calls his former soldiers together to “give the nicest gift to the nicest man you will ever know.”
In a time where everything is pulling our attention in a hundred directions, let’s take time to remember “the nicest gift” we have ever received, in the form of a small child in a manger, that we have a chance to celebrate with our friends and family. Here…. and now.
Phil Davis: My dear partner, when what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left.
Bob Wallace: When I figure out what that means I'll come up with a crushing reply.
Phil Davis: Ever since the day we became producers, you were a changed man. You’ve gone absolutely berserk with work. And the strange thing is you like it.
Work, life, stress, the festivities of the season can keep us distracted from what is right in front of us. When Bob and Phil’s former commanding officer, an innkeeper in Vermont, is in trouble, Bob is ready to run back to New York… But Phil reminds him that “the problem is here…now.”
The things of this world, whether they are things in our past or things that need to be done in the future. Those things on our mind, whether they be good or bad, can keep our attention somewhere else and miss the things that need our attention here and now. That the season in front of us can be time to draw closer to our Savior, who came to earth to draw us into his presence. Jesus said:
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”. Matthew 11:28-30
Jesus continues to call us into his presence this Christmas Season.
For Bob Wallace, he realizes the need in Vermont and calls his former soldiers together to “give the nicest gift to the nicest man you will ever know.”
In a time where everything is pulling our attention in a hundred directions, let’s take time to remember “the nicest gift” we have ever received, in the form of a small child in a manger, that we have a chance to celebrate with our friends and family. Here…. and now.
Recent
Archive
2024
2023
November
Categories
no categories
No Comments