Face-to-Face

Tomorrow evening, Alaska Airlines will transport my wife and me to Phoenix.  The occasion?  Grand Canyon University's Family Weekend - AKA the first weekend we get to enjoy visiting our daughter who is now well into her first semester of college.  I'm sure it will be a great time.  For one reason, we will be doing much less shopping than we did in August.  Who knew a person could go to Target so many times?  (Not to mention all the other stores we frequented.)  For another reason, we will eat some delicious "street" tacos and a not-found-in-Alaska Chick-fil-a #1 meal with extra pickles.  For another reason, it will not be 114 degrees like it was the day we moved her into her dorm.  I really do look forward to the less shopping, good eating, and cooler temperatures.

Yet, I most look forward to just spending face-to-face time with our daughter.  That is true even if it does include more shopping.  Why?  Because she is our daughter and we love her.  We are traveling to see her because she is our daughter and we love her.

In John's account of God's good news, we read about a Father who did something very similar yet far more profound.  Borrowing the well-crafted words of Max Lucado, "God came near."  God came near, by sending His Son, because He loves you.  You are His daughter (or son) and He loves you.  Jesus came not for "street" lamb tacos or extra pickles; He came for you.  He traveled to the world because you are His child and He loves you.  Don't ever forget that!

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