After looking at the pictures flooding social media it appears that the candy makers won again this year.  I think that some of the children should bring us some candy to save themselves for having to eat it all.  Just kidding.

Now that Halloween is in the books for this year we can begin to focus on the real holidays.  I love Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I hate the commercialization of these holidays.  It seems to get worse each year.

Thanksgiving should be a time that is more than football or hunting.  The holidays should be a time for families to get together and enjoy one another.  We need to appreciate one another and we need to let our loved ones know how we feel about them because we do not know if this will be our last time to meet together.

I have been thinking about Mephibosheth.  He is the son of Jonathan, Saul’s son.  He was made lame by his nurse when they were fleeing for their lives.  Mephibosheth lives every day with his disability.

One day, David wants to honor his best friend Jonathan.  He makes inquiry if there is any of Jonathan’s family still alive.  It is discovered that Mephibosheth is alive.  The king sends for him.  I cannot imagine how he felt.  I would be filled with fear that the king was really wanting to eliminate all of the former king’s relatives.

David does the right thing and honors Jonathan by doing right for Mephibosheth.  Look at the words of II Samuel 9:5, “Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.”  The word “Lodebar” means pastureless.  Mephibosheth was living in a bad place.  He probably felt inferior.  Then one day the call comes that the king sent for him.

You never know what it might do for someone to receive a gift out of love.  Maybe we need to do things for people that have no way of repaying us.  I believe that Jesus did that for every single one of us.

So, how are you doing?