You are a reason for the season

​This time of the year, I always find myself wondering - why a baby? Why a baby to change the direction of humanity?

And even more, why a baby in a manger?

I celebrated my first born's birthday last weekend. Any parent reading this knows that no matter how many moments of their kids' lives they can't quite recall between their birth and their present - they can ALWAYS recall with great clarity the moment of their birth.

I remember the love in that moment. I don't know if I said it - or even thought it - but I knew the moment each of my boys were born - I knew they would always be enough.

Nothing they would ever do would add to it. Nothing would take away from it. They were already enough.

It's never lost on me that God looked upon me at the moment of my birth. It's never lost on me - in that moment - even if God wasn't saying it or thinking it - he was lovingly knowing I would always be enough.

A popular saying at Christmas is "Jesus is the reason for the season." Yes, but so are we. We are the reason for this season. We are the reason for the baby in the manger. He came in the humblest of settings to remind us, that in the humblest of our settings, we are enough.

Brene Brown says, "let go of who you think you're supposed to be, embrace who you are."

So many of us spend our lives trying to be who we think we're supposed to be. Shoot, a whole bunch of us are spending our lives just trying to FIGURE OUT who we're supposed to be.

But what if a reason for the season is to remind us - who we are is children of God. From the humblest first seconds of our birth, God has declared we'll never be more than that; we'll never undo that.

Who you are is a reason for this season. Don't let this season go by without being reminded of that. Don't waste a second of this season trying to be more than that.

It's Monday. And no matter what happens this week, you will still be enough.

You always have been.