Christmas: Reason for the Season

I remember one person in my college days that said to me, “If you really want to do something worthwhile on this campus, just find the loneliest classmate and work at becoming their best friend.” “Let them know they are really important to you!” I never forgot that and I have put it into practice all these many years, where ever I can.  It really works!  The sense of accomplishment is very satisfying.  Besides you find out many things about yourself that you have to deal with, both good and bad.

I have been reminded of late that the best place to practice this kind of “difference making” is in my own home.  Starting with my mate, I try to help her/him to become the best at what they want to be.  If we make them feel good about themselves they seem to achieve to a greater degree than if they had to climb the hill alone.  They will appreciate the encouragement that came from someone whose opinion they value.


I know a true story of two people who were both studying the ministry to become missionaries.  They took classes together and were assigned to the same mission station after graduation.  They decided that they should get married and that it would be better for both of them.  A few years later they came home on furlough.  The wife went to their local Pastor for counseling and admitted that she really didn’t love her husband and didn’t know what to do about it.  The very wise pastor began to let her see the side of her husband that she had never seen before.  He used this same method of asking her if she was really interested in making him a better person than she thought he was. He laid out things for her to do to encourage her husband in what he wanted to accomplish in his life.

She wrote her pastor from the mission station, about a year later, and it was the most precious letter he had ever gotten.  She had began to be the best friend he had ever had and she worked at it so hard that see fell deeply, deeply in love with him!!


When I think of Our Heavenly Father, who sent is Only Son to earth for the purpose of wanting to become our best friend. . . . . .

Don’t you think that this is the real “REASON FOR THE SEASON!!!!”


Just a thought.