What perspective do you have a change? A Christian perspective starts with a changeless changing God. He himself never changes but he brings changes all around. He loves good change, that is why he has given us a living heritage. How could that help your perspective on change?

Have you found pleasure and delight? Can you sustain delight through all of life? Stare at God's pleasure and delight within himself. It is a wonderful sight.

As life goes on, it is easy for dreams to be shattered on the rocks of reality. At the same time, many consider dreams their own responsibility to fulfill, something like the pressure we put on our children as we try to live through them. The gospel shows us a middle way. Simeon and Anna's dreams were fulfilled - more than their wildest dreams were fulfilled. But this wasn't their own doing. The Lord made their dreams greater, stronger, and then fulfilled them.

The amazing thing about the Lord Jesus is that he lets us know God personally. We don't know an abstract, impersonal God, we get a personal God. And yet he still speaks truth into our lives. Most people know us so personally that the can't speak truth into our lives or they don't know us well enough to speak truth to us. The Lord Jesus is both for us.

Is God real? Can we relate to him? Definitely. God is far more than we imagine and far more intimate than we could ever hope. Christmas tells us how real he is and how much we can relate to him.

Love is a challenge, because it is more than either emotion or action, but it is not less than each. Jesus brings both action and emotion together, and that makes him the ultimate display of love from God.

You can't experience joy unless you've experienced loss, but if you've experienced loss you can receive incredible grace and with grace comes joy.

Do you have hope? It is possible to have hope and you need it. But along with other things, it will only come from words that work and a Lord that is beyond this all. From the depths of hopelessness, you can see the one in the most hopeless situation of all and discover real hope.

Are you going where no one else is, dancing and fighting the whole way? That's what we can do with generous feet. Generous feet come when we see how much God delights in us and how Jesus fights for us. He came dancing and fighting, now we go and do the same.