Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  It is Christmas, finally! Who doesn’t want for this year to be over sooner rather than later? Wow, what year!   But what gives you the hope that next year will be better than this? According to Murphy’s law, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". In fact, we don’t know that next year will be better or worse. What makes you wonder?   Maybe, there is meaning why they chose to place Christmas at the end of the year (nobody knows exactly the date of Jesus’ birthday). The birth of Jesus, in the Christian world, Jesus represents hope. The hope of a new beginning, the hope of a new life, a rebirth. So, everybody hopes to start the new year with a fresh start, a clean slate.   Why? Maybe you have no idea why you and most of the world thinks that this is how it is. A new year, new things, the old has passed, the new has come.   The gospel says exactly this. Once you decide to believe that God came down to earth to tell us th...

  Isn’t it good to give gifts? Does it feel good, doesn’t it? Why is that? We are made to give, donate. We are made to make another person happy. It is a pleasure to see the other one happy. Our brain likes it. If you try, you will feel more fulfilled than when you buy something for yourself. People lately are saying things that “you must think of what YOU want”. Really? Doesn’t the world have enough selfishness around? Can you really stand a selfish person? Someone that is always put oneself first? Does any relationship survive if one, at least one of the people are selfish?? Doesn’t require some sort of selflessness, sacrifice, to make a relationship work out? Yes, Jesus came to the world to teach us that. He said: “Love one another as I have loved you.” Do you think that in this phrase selfishness fits? Apostle Paul once said, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,” Philippians 2:3. How does t...