It is so hard to celebrate a nice, peaceful Christmas. Everything seems to get so rushed in December. All the friends who haven’t seen you in months suddenly want to see you before Christmas. There are Christmas parties and more Christmas parties that we just have to attend. Dinner’s, luncheons, the list seems endless. We shop, we visit, we send cards which of course have to have nice long letters included in them. We’re seemingly busy all day, every day, morning to late at night. There’s nothing wrong with any of these Christmas celebrations or activities, but together they tend to gang up on us and steal the peace and wonder of Christmas.
Stop. Stop everything for a couple of minutes. Breathe deeply, smile, think about what Christmas is really all about. Think about our Heavenly Father who sent His Son to earth to atone for our sins. Think about the wonder of the birth of Jesus to a virgin, Mary, a young teen who suddenly found herself the mother of the Messiah. Think about the stable, the animals, the shepherds in the fields tending their sheep, the angels and the birth of our Saviour. It all happened. It’s real. And today we can know the Saviour. We can have a personal relationship with Jesus. Each of us is offered the opportunity to truly know God’s love and forgiveness. That’s what Christmas is really all about.
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