Let me begin by saying that when it comes to making kids feel safe and loved, Santa is downright magical. Kids can enter Santa's space unsure and leave with a smiling photograph to prove the victory. However, there are some children for whom no amount of wooing or comfort will move them. Often they are fine observing Santa from the safety of a stroller or parent's arms. Santa can expend all his Christmas cheer and there is no moving this child. They will leave without an embrace by Santa.
Now, we know that Santa is good and that an experience with Santa leaves you feeling as warm as a yuletide fire. However, for whatever reason, there are those children for whom the fear blocks reason and they miss it. All I know is that there was an invitation from love and fear blocked it
I think we are like that more that we would like to admit. God promises love, but, for whatever reason, we want to stay in our stroller. There is a God who calls us to step out on faith, jump up in his lap, and read our wish list, but the fear is just to overwhelming.
I've been there.
When you are wounded by love or made to feel somehow that it's your job to make it happen, trusting a good thing is not always easy. God knows our hearts and what is written on our "list" and is dying for us to crawl up into his lap and read to him. Because of our fear we often choose to stay someplace that is more familiar but is far less than our hearts' cry.
The risk of snuggling into the red suit is huge, but then it's his job to love the fear from us.
He has more that Christmas magic to offer.
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