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Lk 2:1-14 It was Christmas Eve and a young mother was busy wrapping the very last packages. She asked her little boy to polish her shoes for next morning's Christmas Mass. And so off he went. The little fellow was gone quite a while. But when he returned he was beaming as he presented the shiny shoes to his mother. "What a perfect shoe shine!" she said. And with that she gave him a shiny new quarter for working so hard and doing so well. The next morning, when she was dressing for church, she found something lodged in the toe of her shoe — something tiny, wrapped in a crumpled piece of paper. Carefully she opened the tiny package, and inside she found the quarter she'd given her little boy for shining her shoes. Written on the crumpled paper in his childish scrawl were these words: "Dear Mommy, I done it for love!" That's why we're here to celebrate on Christmas: because He did it for love! All for love! So what more can we say but "Thanks"? + + + + Thank You, Lord Jesus, for becoming our brother! Thank You for taking on all our troubles! Thank You for keeping your promise to be with us and for us all the days of our life! In the quiet of our hearts, we thank You, Lord Jesus, this day and always! Amen. |