The Present

so there it was* under my christmas tree* the present* nothing like it had i ever seen before* but what did i expect i had never been loved like this before* it was so unimaginable how just a simple little thing like this could mean the world to me* i had received bigger things before* brighter things before* nicer smelling things before* even more attractive things before* but something about this present was like no other* it had meaning* it had value* it had purpose* it was mine and i was very happy*

snow fell on the small town of marionville this year* everyone rejoiced but one little girl* her name was karry* karry loved the snow just not this year's white wonder* one year it had been since she lost her mother* one agonizing* painful* lonely year without someone she was so closed to* someone she cherished* someone she thought would be there with her forever* it was amidst the falling snow last year that she held her mom's hand for the last time as the faint wisper of a promise came across her mother's lips* i'll be in your dreams forever* and karry replied* i'll never forget you* such powerful words* such powerful memories* such a powerful feeling of loss as the snow fell down on this time called the present*

the present for so many can be such a rush of the emotions* whether the joy of a tangible present one can hold and admire* or the hurt of the present one can live in and experience* the fact is that there is no greater present than that of the one that transends anything we could ever hope for or desire and expresses its love through the moments we can hold on to* it is the present that will never fail or forsake us* the present that will never let us down* a present that will last in eternity* it doesn't take a thought or emotion* it simply is a present that is* relive that present everyday and be greatful for this gift goes on*

even so we* when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world* but when the fulness of the time was come* god sent forth his son* made of a woman, made under the law* to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons* christian bible scripture