Can you blame me?!?
It only comes ‘almost’ every four years, so of course I’m going to reflect on Leap day in this Leap year! Oh and it’s 2020, so do you think I’m going to let that escape notice? So with our eyes focused with 20/20 vision let’s leap into it.
Faith. It is no static reality. It is both a gift and a disposition. As a gift it is something that has been given. (No dah). It has been given from God through others … transmitted … sent. But just because a gift was sent it remains unrealized until it is open. And once opened…it needs to be appreciated and accepted.
Christmas is a perfect example of this. Have you ever seen toddlers at Christmas? They don’t just rip into their own gifts, they unabashedly rip into all the gifts around them! But the appreciation is not yet developed is it? And who expects a thank you note from a toddler?!?! HAHAHA.
Faith is a gift and offer and an invitation. Freely given, it is an offer of relationship and an invitation to something more. The something more is the Giver. It is an invitation to a deep, real and everlasting relationship with the Giver!
Those who claim to have no faith or to have lost their faith or to have little faith are in good company. Even the apostles had little —wanted more.
Who of us does not truly want to have faith … deep abiding everlasting faith?
Today let’s make the leap again, the leap of faith. Today let’s unwrap the gift again. Today let’s accept the offer again. And today let us leap into that invitation to a relationship with the Giver…AGAIN!
