I’ve been thinking, which can admittedly be a dangerous thing, according to my loved ones…

While this is not necessarily on the topic of business or technology, I have been thinking on a few things over the past few weeks, and really started thinking about truth, and what is truth - what are my truths?

I pointed out in a previous article that I believe their to be 5 universal truths. One was knowing and living your vision. The second was about committing to your course. I had thought I would stop there as these were important for me to talk about and they related to business very well.

However, I sat down for a quick read of The Christmas Box (Richard Paul Evans), and I felt very convicted to press on with recording my 5 truths, those things I hold dear and shape my life in ways I cannot even begin to put into words.

Another universal truth is knowing your child’s love. I would perhaps put this at the top of my list after helping to deliver my baby girl. I had a wonderful home life with parents that really tried to make a better life for me than they were afforded; not everyone gets to experience that. I am married to a wonderful wife, who takes care of me - feeding my growing stomach as well as my soul. While each is a form of love, nothing was quite so special as the love of my daughter.

My daughter was delivered on Thanksgiving Day, 2003. What a true blessing that was for my wife and I. The pregnancy was a little unexpected, but was quickly embraced. We went to work, purchased a house, renovated it and moved in.

As my daughter grows, each week is more wonderful than the previous. We see her make connections and discover things that we would never have thought of. We share in the delight and frustrations she has, and hurt when she falls. We find we are rediscovering so many things we had lost along the way, and given up things that used to seem important.

The love of my daughter is so different from any other love. Only those that feel their child’s hug or have their warm smile set your insides on fire with gleeful chuckles know. It is truly a blessed feeling.

So this is one of my truths and one of those things I hope everyone knows. I will close with a quote from The Christmas Box:

…And to this day, the Christmas Box remains a source of great joy to me. For though it appears empty, to me it contains all that Christmas is made of, the root of all wonder in a child’s eyes, and the source of the magic of Christmas for centuries to come. More than giving, more than believing, for these are mere manifestations of the contents of that box. The sacred contents of that box are a parent’s pure love for a child, manifested first by a Father’s love for all His children, as He sacrificed that which He loved most and sent His son to earth on that Christmas day so long ago. And as long as the earth lives, and longer, that message will never die. Though the cold winds of life may put a frost on the heart of many, that message alone will shelter the heart from life’s storms. And for me, as long as I live, the magic inside the Christmas Box will never die. It will never die.

Tags: Child's Love, The Christmas Box, Truth