Emmanuel. God with us.

Barnies white Christmas icecream by publix is quite possibly my favorite frozen confection. I enjoy a bowl far too often but love the sweetness, the coffee flavor, the cold , the chocolate chips. There are some parts I don't like : it's runs out fast... It makes me cough because cold exacerbates my asthma.. I have to brush my teeth after because I hate the sugar feeling.. But it's my favorite.

While seemingly silly I think this is a perfect illustration of how nothing in life is perfect. There are two sides to every coin. Some days at easier to be on the negative side than the positive. There are people I know life this and I'm guilty of it on days too. 

It's makes it hard to picture heaven when you are rationale. The idea of a perfect place with no more tears sounds too good to be true. And yet our very reward of salvation is the gift of eternal life in heaven with God. And honestly I picture being on my face before God for all eternity. I can't imagine or fathom the idea of looking a perfection. Yet in this season of advent we wait and welcome the birth of perfection to walk among us. Emmanuel. God with us. He was here. He was talking and walking and breathing on this earth and he had moments of joy and moments of sorrow. It wasn't rainbows and butterflies all the time sometimes it was sweating blood. 

Friends know that He who is perfect can empathize with you in every moment. He cares for you and friends know that he is with us always. In this season remember the one who is perfect who came to take away the sins of the world. Let your focus be on Him.  Emmanuel. 

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Anita